Tower blocks in Great Britain
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title:
Tower blocks in Great Britain
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Tower blocks are high-rise buildings for residential use. These blocks began to be built in Great Britain after the Second World War. The first residential tower block, "The Lawn", was constructed in Harlow, Essex, in 1951; it is now a Grade II listed building. In many cases, tower blocks were seen as a "quick-fix" to cure problems caused by the existence of crumbling and unsanitary 19th-century dwellings or to replace buildings destroyed by German aerial bombing. It was argued that towers surro
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High-rise buildings for residential use
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tower_blocks_in_Great_Britain
date created:
2017-06-15T15:48:24Z
date modified:
2024-09-07T00:42:27Z
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