When the Thamesmead estate was built in the late-1960s, it was hailed as a futuristic “town for the 21st century”. Designed to ease London’s post-war housing crisis, the Brutalist estate ...

The Lesnes Estate in Thamesmead, part of the brutalist 1960s estate where Stanley Kubrick’s Clockwork Orange was filmed, has become a ghost town with roughly a quarter of residents still living ...

‘Thamesmead’. Semantically, the word sounds like a riverside Shakespearean ale house. But, in the public imagination, it conjures images of a 1970s, crime-ridden neighbourhood, and the droogish ...