A photographic print of Housing, Post War, Houses - Flats, Maisonettes and Estates, etc, including Mews

19-1-1960 TENANTS TAKE OVER FIRST OF NEW L.C.C. FLATS ON LATEST LONDON ESTATE. The Mayor of Southwark (Councillor George Darvell) this morning handed over the key to the first tenant of Cornish House, one of the six 18 storey tower blocks of flats on the L.C.C. Brandon Estate, Southwark. The blocks are, at 172 feet, the tallest residential buildings to be completed since the war. KEYSTONE PHOTO SHOWS:- The scene which Mr. and Mrs. O'Brien - the first tenants - get from the balcony of their top-floor flat - 172ft. up - on the Brandon Estate, Southwark today. JSS/KEYSTONE HMN/712878 Housing - Flats