I thought this would stop with the removal of Marvellous Marvin (the former mayor).
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Two very different eras & styles of housing: a row of traditional, brick-built, terraced houses in #Newcastle with ugly, mid-20th century tower blocks behind them https://www.flickr.com/photos/woolamaloo_gazette/54943393347/in/photostream/lightbox/
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This tower block has a busy roadway running through below it https://www.flickr.com/photos/woolamaloo_gazette/54944473853/in/photostream/lightbox/
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40 Kingsway Court in the Scotstoun area of Glasgow. It's one of six tower blocks built in the 1960s as part of the Kingsway Court Estate.
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In the last few decades most of the city's 1950s, 60s and 70s residential tower blocks have been demolished to be replaced by modern versions of the tenements they themselves were meant to replace.
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Crathie Court in the Thornwood area of Glasgow. Designed in a Modernist style in 1946 and built in the early 1950s, this was one of the city's first high-rise public housing development. It comprised 88 one-bedroomed flats and was originally built to house single women.
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Cromwell Tower, Barbican Estate, London, 2025
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Battlefield Court on the Southside of Glasgow. Containing 114 flats, it was just one of many similar residential tower blocks constructed across the city in the 1960s, many of which have now been demolished.
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