Newly completed high rise flats, Callendar Estate

Maker
Falkirk Town Council. Town Planning Officer
Production date
Oct 1967
 Description
View looking west from Leishman Tower towards Eastburn and Belmont Towers. Construction workers are still on the site. To the right is East Bridge Street, the new Callendar Centre, the Steeple and the chimney of Aitken's Brewery.
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Maker
Production date
Oct 1967
Subject person
Subject place
Eastburn Tower/Eastburn Dr/Callendar Estate/Falkirk area
Belmont Tower/Eastburn Dr/Callendar Estate/Falkirk area
Subject notes
In the 1960s local authorities embarked on large scale slum clearance. Many of the houses that replaced the tenements were high-rise. They were constructed by bolting together pre-cast sections. The enthusiasm amongst local authorities for high-rise flats was short-lived. In the 1990s some were demolished because of social problems associated with them. Those in Falkirk have avoided that fate.
Accession number
P06480

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