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Windrush Tower, Blackbird Leys, Oxford, Oxfordshire, UK, 1962 (b/w photo)

Windrush Tower, Blackbird Leys, Oxford, Oxfordshire, UK, 1962 (b/w photo)
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Windrush Tower, Blackbird Leys, Oxford, Oxfordshire, UK, 1962 (b/w photo)
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1962 AD (C20th AD)
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The Mayor of Oxford, Alderman Lionel Harrison, cutting the tape at the ceremonial opening of Windrush Tower, a 15-storey block of flats in Blackbird Leys in Oxford_x000D_ _x000D_ Windrush Tower was ceremonially opened by the Mayor, Alderman Lionel Harrison, on 9th April 1962. The tower block contained 58 two-bedroom flats and two one-bedroom flats, and was celebrated as the highest domestic block of flats in Oxford at 155 feet. John Laing and Son Ltd simultaneously constructed a second 15-storey tower at the site called Evenlode Tower.

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© Historic England / John Laing Photographic Collection / Bridgeman Images
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