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1/ THREAD: A walk in Camden celebrating (mostly) council housing and municipalism. Firstly, the Regent's Park Estate built by St Pancras Metropolitan Borough Council from 1951. Swallowfield (left), a later phase, was designed by Edward Armstrong and Frederick MacManus.


2/ There is some good quality new build from Camden, mostly social rent though sadly built to replace homes lost to HS2. I've written on the Regent's Park Estate here:
https://t.co/R5jMrmEdiK


3/ The interwar Cumberland Market Estate, now Peabody, was social housing designed by architect C E Varndell for the Crown Estate built around a former branch of Regent's Canal.


4/ A nice St Pancras Metropolitan Borough lamppost in Park Village West.


5/ The Regent's Canal and the Grade II-listed Primrose Hill Primary School, designed for the School Board of London by ER Robson circa 1885.