Wikimapia is a multilingual open-content collaborative map, where anyone can create place tags and share their knowledge.

Wild Street Estate (Peabody Group) (London)

United Kingdom / England / London / Wild Street
 public housing estate, apartment complex
 Upload a photo

Housing Estate
Wild Street estate, in Drury Lane, opened in 1881 as part of Peabody’s effort to clear London’s slums. So many people needed re-housing that the Trustees built 13 six-storey blocks on the site.
Information about residents’ occupations appears in the 1901 census. This shows that West End theatres, restaurants, Covent Garden Market, the newspaper trade and Government offices were good sources of employment for those living on the estate.
As a result of war damage in 1941 and 1944 two blocks in the centre of the estate were later demolished. The remaining flats were modernised in the 1960s to make them self-contained.
www.peabody.org.uk/home
Nearby cities:
Coordinates:   51°30'51"N   -0°7'13"E
This article was last modified 8 years ago