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Phase 1, Priory Green Estate (formerly known as the Busaco Street Estate), Collier Street, Finsbury, London: the communal laundry and boiler house

RIBA Ref No RIBA28327
Architect/DesignerSkinner Bailey & Lubetkin
Tecton
Artist/PhotographerWainwright, Herbert Lionel (1902-1976)
CountryUK: England
CityLondon
Subject Date1952
Image Date1952
ViewExterior
StyleModern Movement
MediumPhotoprint
Library Reference5058/81 (Wainwright 10592) (ON140)
OrientationLandscape
Colour InfoBlack and white
CreditRIBA Collections
SubjectFlats ; Heating and ventilating ; Housing ; 1950s British Social Housing ; Chimneys ; Concrete ; Round buildings ; Unusual structures
NOTES: Designed by Tecton in parallel with the Spa Green Estate, Priory Green was actually completed somewhat later by Skinner Bailey & Lubetkin in 1943-1957. The original design, part of a larger plan conceived before the war in 1937, was modified to take account of the changed post-war situation. The site, which originally was very small, was enlarged by bomb damage but at the same time the Council's housing fund suffered from cuts in government subsidies and Priory Green was denied the money available to the development at Spa Green. Rosebery Avenue opened in 1949 and the first stage of the estate was completed in 1952 consisting of 269 flats in the two eight-storey blocks and the four four-storey blocks. The third eight-storey block, community centre and public house were completed c. 1955. The scheme as first conceived was part of a unified programme that it was hoped would transform Finsbury and alleviate its appalling housing and social problems. The coherence of the strategy, however, was destroyed by changes in personnel in the Council and by post-war austerity.
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