2-879-091 - Historic England Archive/Heritage Images

Aylesbury Estate, Walworth, Southwark, London, 29/06/1970. Looking north-west over the Aylesbury Estate, showing the 'Centre Building' with its 170ft chimney and Taplow House, a 14-storey block of flats on the right. 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, built using the 12M Jespersen system. The 'Centre Building' with its attached chimney, shown in the foreground, included boiler rooms, a boy's club and community centre. The photograph has been taken from the roof of high-rise flats on Thurlow Street.