Fucking always get Bevan's and Bevin's surnames mixed up.
Makes it even more interesting that it used to be called Lenin Court and then they honoured Ernest Bevin with it instead. I'd prefer a Bevan court myself. Still, nevertheless a left-wing tag as promised!
Having read the clue before I'd seen the pic go up I was preparing to scream "re-post". I thought it was going to be the Finsbury Health Centre which I tagged a while ago, also a Lubetkin building, and also the model of health care provision on which the NHS, as delivered by Nye Bevan, was designed.
Nicely circular and not a fucking royal in sight.
I was going to tag Finsbury Health Centre a while back, ever since I first heard of it at the Wellcome Collection's Dirt exhibition. But when I was first searching through the tags here I saw it had already been tagged. It was through reading more about Lubetkin after seeing the health centre that I learned he was behind all the modernist estates in that bit of Clerkenwell that are a cut above your average housing project. He was a good man.
Fucking always get Bevan's and Bevin's surnames mixed up.
Makes it even more interesting that it used to be called Lenin Court and then they honoured Ernest Bevin with it instead. I'd prefer a Bevan court myself. Still, nevertheless a left-wing tag as promised!
I was going to tag Finsbury Health Centre a while back, ever since I first heard of it at the Wellcome Collection's Dirt exhibition. But when I was first searching through the tags here I saw it had already been tagged. It was through reading more about Lubetkin after seeing the health centre that I learned he was behind all the modernist estates in that bit of Clerkenwell that are a cut above your average housing project. He was a good man.