| Description | Scope and content:
Includes details of individual streets, sites, properties, homelessness, social infrastructural developments (e.g. libraries, housing estate communal halls and social clubs) and the history of housing in Tower Hamlets generally.
For example in 1967 - 1968 (L/THL/A/20/1/1) the index includes the following entries:
- Acquisition of premises
- Appropriation of land
- Clearance orders
- CPOs
- Individual streets/properties, sites
- Improvement of pre-war housing estates and acquired properties
- Overcrowding (linked to issuance of property Management Orders under Section 12 of the 1961 Housing Act)
- Slum clearance
- There are also lists of estates with social clubs, tenants associations, borough-wide clubs (16/10/67), reports on
housing problems from the GLC, naming estates, and other matters arising. |