Owning your own home

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brokenbetty in reply to @Oliver Schick

I found out recently the Broadwater farm estate is basically built on stilts because it's on the Moselle flood area. I thought the design was just the modernist commitment to creating dangerous urban spaces.

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Oliver Schick in reply to @brokenbetty

Yes, if you look back at old maps, you can see how large the open land, of which what is now Lordship Rec was a part, once was, including the land the estate is on now:

https://maps.nls.uk/view/102345843

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brokenbetty in reply to @Oliver Schick

If you like maps have you seen the 1619 map of Tottenham? It's very cool if you know the area: you can find farms that are now street names and courses of buried rivers.

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