The SE1 Stories group has built an online walking tour around the locations highlighted in our exhibition “Blackfriars SE1 in the 1970s”. These include sites which were fought over in the campaigns to give local people a say over redevelopment plans, and those of the organisations who planned and carried out the campaigns. You can now access the tour via your web browser using Layers of London.
To help improve the information we organised a real walk. Thank you to all the SE1 Stories members and to the enthusiastic people who signed up to go round with us in the biting cold. And thank you to Blackfriars Settlement for organising a very welcome lunch for us at the end of the two hour walk. A selection of photographs from this event are on our Instagram feed.
Further thanks for the support provided by Sue Brownill (Oxford Brookes University) and the Spaces of Hope: Peoples’ Plans research project (the Hidden History of Community Led Planning in the UK).