The flats in Avenham comprise of a number of high-rise blocks – Richmond, Lincoln and Carlisle House - and many smaller flats dotted around the area. They were built in the 1960s. With these images we look at the changing face of the flats over the years.
25. Memories of Avenham flats
York House in Avenham - one of the high-rise flats which in 1982 were universally condemned as a planners' aberration, but remained, scarring the sky and fulfilling the lowest requirements of functional box housing Photo: Archive
26. Memories of Avenham flats
Josephine Connolly with son Michael in her living room on the eighth floor of York House, Avenham Photo: Archive
28. Memories of Avenham flats
In 1975 this is what the flats on Oxford Street in Preston looked like Photo: Archive
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