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This series is a documentation of the community living at the Holly Lodge Estate in Highgate, North London. Holly Lodge was purpose built for single women after the first World War - responding to the changes of a society in which many of the young men had died, and the needs of single women to live in a secure environment.Holly Lodge became a council estate around 1965, with the council retaining the women-only housing policy at the time. Some of the women who were given homes on the estate came from vulnerable circumstances - it was a safe place. Over the years and due to the changing nature of council housing, Holly Lodge estate has changed. Yet it has retained it's primarily feminine nature - many of the women who moved here when it was first built as women-only housing are still around. I lived in Holly Lodge Mansions for five years, in a small bed-sit just like the original tenant's rooms. During that time I found my own two feet, and this place and it's women were an inspiration. |
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