2-879-111 - Historic England Archive/Heritage Images

Aylesbury Estate, Walworth, Southwark, London, 01/07/1969. A panoramic view from the north-west showing the Aylesbury Estate during construction. 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 photograph may have been taken from the top of the Studland tower block at the junction of Portland Street with Trafalgar Street in Walworth.