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South Mile End
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South Mile End |
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View of South Mile End in foreground, with Hardgate and Gairn Terrace in background |
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| Depicted place | Aberdeen | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Date | 1985 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Medium | Scanned from Kodachrome slides. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Credit line | Heritage Lottery-funded project, 2017 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Notes | Multi-storey block details: one 10-storey block containing 58 dwellings; Multi-storey block name(s): Balmoral Court SC46; Image detail: View of South Mile End in foreground, with Hardgate and Gairn Terrace in background; Original Commissioning Authority Aberdeen Burgh Council; Construction period (from/to): 1968 1969 Context: Tower Block UK is a project supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund, bringing together public engagement and an openly-licensed image archive in an attempt to emphasise the social and architectural importance of tower blocks, and to frame multi-storey social housing as a coherent and accessible nationwide heritage. The Tower Block UK image archive is a searchable database of around 4,000 images of every multi-storey social housing development built in the UK. The photographs were largely taken in the 1980s by Miles Glendinning and are made available here for public use. As many of the blocks documented and photographed have since been demolished, the archive functions in part as a repository of information on an important aspect of UK heritage that is now vanishing. The archive itself catalogues multi-storey blocks as part of the developments within which they were initially commissioned and built. It gives details of notable dates, such as when local authorities approved the developments and when construction began or finished. Alongside this, the archive provides information on the local authorities, architects, and other agents involved in the processes of commissioning, designing, and constructing mass social housing. While the most historically 'accurate' identification labels in the database are the original overall development or project names, the archive also contains details of the individual blocks built. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| References | Tower blocks’ crumbling image restored in new archive of high life. Heritage Fund (12 February 2015). Retrieved on 16 August 2021. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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  This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license. Attribution: Copyright The University of Edinburgh.
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