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Churchill Gardens Estate, Pimlico, London: Chaucer House and the heat-accumulator seen from across the Thames

RIBA Ref No RIBA3811
Architect/DesignerPowell & Moya
Artist/PhotographerGalwey, Reginald Hugo de Burgh (1917-1971)
CountryUK: England
CityLondon
Subject Date1962
Image Date1950
ViewExterior
StyleModern Movement
MediumPhotoprint
Library ReferenceBM/H&F/41/J
OrientationLandscape
Colour InfoBlack and white
CreditRIBA Collections
SubjectRiverside buildings ; Heating and ventilating ; 1950s British Social Housing ; Towers ; Flats ; Boats ; Housing
NOTES: This, the largest housing scheme by Westminster City Council, was built in four sections between 1946 and 1962. The heat-accumulator was used to store the hot water brought in a tunnel below the river from Battersea power station for the district heating scheme.
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