Isabelle Carter

Facade of Park Hill, a council housing estate in Sheffield, England.

‘Love Among the Ruins’? Telling the social history of Sheffield’s best-known housing estates

by Isabelle Carter on July 24, 2018

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An eyesore or an architectural landmark? Should the flats have been Grade II listed or demolished alongside Hyde Park in the early 1990s? A feature of Sheffield’s skyline since 1957, the multi-storey housing estate Park

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