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Windrush Tower, Blackbird Leys, Oxford, Oxfordshire, 09/04/1962. Creator: John Laing plc.

Windrush Tower, Blackbird Leys, Oxford, Oxfordshire, 09/04/1962. Creator: John Laing plc.

2-854-203 - Historic England Archive/Heritage Images

The Mayor of Oxford, Alderman Lionel Harrison, cutting the tape at the ceremonial opening of Windrush Tower, a 15-storey block of flats in Blackbird Leys in Oxford. Windrush Tower was ceremonially opened by the Mayor, Alderman Lionel Harrison, on 9th April 1962. The tower block contained 58 two-bedroom flats and two one-bedroom flats, and was celebrated as the highest domestic block of flats in Oxford at 155 feet. John Laing and Son Ltd simultaneously constructed a second 15-storey tower at the site called Evenlode Tower.

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Creator
  1. John Laing plc, attributed to: British: construction and civil engineering company
Subject
  1. Lionel Harrison: British: Mayor of Oxford
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  1. Photograph
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  1. 51 45 00 N , 001 15 00 W
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Pixel Dimensions (W x H) : 5223x5450
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  1. JLP01/08/062277
  1. jlp01_08_062277
  1. 0250009675
  1. 2-854-203
  1. 2854203
  1. JLP01/08/062277

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