An entrance to the estate

The Cleverly estate is a Peabody Trust housing estate in Shepherd's Bush, London, completed in 1928, and designed by Victor Wilkins.[1] It was the first Peabody estate built with a bathroom in every flat, and has "the most elaborate exterior features" of any of their pre-war estates.[1]

Bomb damage after a direct hit from a V1 rocket in 1945

On 14 February 1945, 30 residents were killed when the estate was struck by a V1 rocket.[2]

References

  1. 1 2 "Peabody through the ages". Peabody. Retrieved 4 June 2020.
  2. ↑ "Peabody 150 | Cleverly estate under attack". Archived from the original on 27 February 2015.

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