Cleverly estate
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An entrance to the estate
The Cleverly estate is a Peabody Trust housing estate in Shepherd's Bush, London, completed in 1928, and designed by Victor Wilkins.[1] It was the first Peabody estate built with a bathroom in every flat, and has "the most elaborate exterior features" of any of their pre-war estates.[1]
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Bomb damage after a direct hit from a V1 rocket in 1945
On 14 February 1945, 30 residents were killed when the estate was struck by a V1 rocket.[2]
References[]
- ^ a b "Peabody through the ages". Peabody. Retrieved 4 June 2020.
- ^ https://web.archive.org/web/20150227043305/http://peabody150.org.uk/2012/02/cleverly-estate-under-attack/. Archived from the original on 2015-02-27.
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