16 Gilbert Road, Cambridge

History of 16 Gilbert Road

25 January 1964 — Council houses described as “social slums”
Many of the council houses built 30 years ago in Stretten Avenue, Darwin Drive and Scotland Road need modernisation: there is no hot water, the bath is in the scullery and they have only outside lavatories. They were becoming ‘social slums’ and attracting ‘the least desirable of tenants’ said councillors. But residents say they are like an old fashioned community: Mrs Evelyn Pigott, who has lived there for 27 years, said she would be sorry to leave her neighbours while the alterations were carried out.

Credit: Mike Petty, 64 01 25b & c.

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1970

Mrs E J Pigott