2-879-088 - Historic England Archive/Heritage Images

Aylesbury Estate, Walworth, Southwark, London, 28/06/1968. Two women working in the computer room of Laing's construction site at the Aylesbury Estate. In 1963, John Laing and Son Ltd bought the rights to the Danish industrialised building system for flats known as ‘Jespersen’ (also called '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. Laing's Southern Region started building the Aylesbury Estate in 1967. At the time it was the largest industrialised housing scheme ever undertaken by a London Borough, providing homes for more than 7000 people, comprising of low and high-rise linear blocks from four to fourteen-storeys high containing flats and maisonettes.