Rosebury Avenue – former Metropolitan Water Board HQ
February 1st, 2012
On my Lubetkin visit to the capital last year, across the road from LSE Rosebury Hall where I was staying, I noticed this magnificent building, origin unknown to me until serendipity played a hand while going through some old Look and Learn magazines from the 1960s I came across this article (large graphic) showing it to have been the headquarters of the Metropolitan Water Board.
Nurses face eviction from staff housing – Guardian
February 1st, 2012
UPDATE: 25/5/18 Royal Free sells Queen Mary House
UPDATE: 9/1/18 Now a report from the NEF No Homes for Nurses
UPDATE: 11/06/17 Better late than never. Pity they sold them off in the first place. Thank goodness the NHS still owns most of the land.
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/jun/10/nurses-homes-nhs-staff-shortfall
https://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2012/jan/31/nurses-face-eviction-staff-housing
This makes me very angry, comment to Guardian below:-
1 February 2012 2:07PM
This is absolutely appalling news but sadly only too predictable. When the police section houses (behind police stations) started to go I seem to remember being told that the police preferred to live with their families (wives and children) and that demand for bachelor (of either gender) accommodation had fallen away.