While cycling to the earlier tour at Balfron Tower, I got a little lost and stumbled upon a couple of other estates in the neighbourhood – Robin Hood Gardens, as well as the nearby Carradale House and Glenkerry House. One good turn deserves another, and London city planners loaded up these council flats in the unluckiest bits of London, especially the East End and South London.
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- These high walls were everywhere – tall barricades with viewing slats. It reminded me of a medieval castle, and not in a good way.
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- Imposing walls!
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- What could be nicer, than living in a garden?
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- It’s sometimes easy to think these estates are built on terrible land – but a 12 minute walk away is Canary Wharf, London’s new financial district, which the global HQs of more than a few heavy hitting banks and consultancies.
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- Carradale House – with its regal missing letters, and inviting walkways
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- Masonettes on the ground floor
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- Glenkerry house – completed in 1979, by which time the Brutalist style was well on its way out.
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- View of Robin Hood Gardens from above (mid-left of photo)
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- What a beaut!
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- I wanted to get in on the shuffleboard game but they didn’t take Canadians.
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- More of Carradale House
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