Caroline Estate, W6

The Caroline Estate dates from 1952-1953.

Margaret House - an original section of the Caroline Estate built in the early twentieth-century.

The London County Council extended the estate in 1953.

In the background, you can see a tall red-brick building with prominent chimneys. This was another housing estate, which was owned and run by the Peabody Trust. Previously, the site had been home to the Convent of the Good Shepherd, which closed in 1920.
Credit: London Metropolitan Archives

Queen Caroline Street was earlier known as Queen Street. Queen Caroline was the wife of King George IV, and the couple had briefly lived in the nearby Brandenburgh House. The names of the mid-rise residential blocks on this section of the estate are named after queens of England.

This area of Hammersmith also contains flats built by the Guinness Trust. The Peabody and Guinness Trusts were charitable organisations set up in the late nineteenth-century to provide homes for the less fortunate.

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