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Birmingham City Surveyor and Engineer, Herbert Manzoni, and City Architect A. G. Sheppard Fidler, with the model of Birmingham???s Inner Ring Road scheme, 1954. It comprised a modernistic outer ring of high-rise blocks, later nicknamed a ???concrete collar???. BRITAIN???S decade of transformation in the 1950s after the austerity caused by the Second World War has been showcased in a new book. Incredible images show the low-cost housing that sprung up all across the country as the government undertook a huge building programme. Other shots show children playing in the street in a new community, builders laying the foundations for the new homes and a hotel with tens of cars parked up outside it, displaying the new-found wealth people were enjoying. The stunning pictures are included in a new book, The 1950s Home, by Janet and John Shepherd and published by Amberley.
2015-01-01
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