This is part of a series of blog posts of historical photos of Palace Road Estate taken in the 1970s.
Part 3/5 looks at some detailed models of the blocks of flats. These showed how the flats fitted within the topology of the sloping sites along Palace Road. Viewing the models from different angles helped the architects to understand how the completed buildings would look. A special camera could even be inserted into the models to show the view from within the finished buildings.
This beautiful model, carefully constructed from wood, shows one of the repeated units of flats, now know as houses – Ducavel, Baly, Ponton and Despard. Note the marker at the top left, showing the direction of north.
