Sujet

Pooles Park, Finsbury Park, Islington, London, 20/05/1970. Creator: John Laing plc.

Légende

Pooles Park, Finsbury Park, Islington, London, 20/05/1970. Two children playing on posts in a playground besides blocks of flats at Pooles Park, built using the 12M Jespersen system. In 1963, John Laing and Son Ltd bought the rights to the Danish industrialised building system for flats known as Jespersen (sometimes referred to as Jesperson). The company built factories in Scotland, Hampshire and Lancashire producing Jespersen prefabricated parts and precast concrete panels, allowing the building of housing to be rationalised, saving time and money. The Pooles Park development was built by Laing for the London Borough of Islington and was designed by architects Max Long & Partners in association with Sydney Greenwood. The contract was for flats and maisonettes in a 12-storey block, a six storey block and seven four-storey blocks, to be built using the 12M Jespersen system, with precast units supplied by the John Laing Concrete factories at Andover and Heywood.

Date

1970

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/Historic England

Notre référence

HRM22A18_087

Model release

Non

Property release

Non

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

96,5Mo (4,3Mo) / 43,6cm x 55,4cm / 5152 x 6544 (300dpi)

Mots clés

exterior outdoors building London England female people childhood male boy boys child children girl girls architecture country play playing playground housing British balance English balancing concrete location century housing estate Britain concept apartment block B&W seventies block of flats Sixties 1970s Construction Industry black & white black and white B W 1960s 20th century Islington TGN outside Council house photograph Finsbury Park brutalist Historic England John Laing plc Laing John plc John Laing & Co John Laing and Company John Laing & Company John Laing and Co council housing Jespersen Jesperson Pooles Park