Nearly fifty years after it was built and a film made about its opening, Arts Council England sent film-maker Peter Wyeth back to Kensal House in north-west London to interview 12 residents about their lives on the estate since its completion in 1936.
The idealism of its architects, Maxwell Fry and Elizabeth Denby, was mirrored by its original tenants, but community fragmentation and poor maintenance meant that by the 1970s Kensal House was becoming a place to move out of, not into.
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