Royal Jubilee Buildings, Wapping High Street

[Merry]

Does anyone know anything about the above building? It seems like the sort of place that would appear a good deal on google, but I'm not finding much.

Someone I'm writing about for a friend lived in flat 66 on the 1939 register. I'm interested in what the facilities were like (slum?) and a picture would be good, but I got bogged down with pics of the wrong places when I looked! Also, when was it built/demolished etc etc

[kiterunner]

Looks like it was damaged in the war:
http://discovery.nationalarchives.go...ils/r/C3727970
http://discovery.nationalarchives.go...ils/r/C3727914

Mentioned on here as tenement blocks, having been demolished but it doesn't say when:
http://edithsstreets.blogspot.co.uk/...-of-tower.html

This comes up on Google search but it won't let me view the video when I click on it:
The Housing Minister, Mr Henry Brooke toured London's slum ...
http://www.gettyimages.fr/detail/vid...g.../207-61-04 - Translate this page
... toured London's slum clearance and redevelopment areas today. Royal Jubilee Buildings at Wapping was his first visit this afternoon. Guid: ANB3997D Story.
I wonder if there is another way of getting at it.

[Phoenix]

We have buildings with similar names in Croydon - some were burnt down in the riots.

Actually very attractive, turn of last century, lots of decorated terra cotta tiles, stained glass in windows, bit of snowcem, interesting shapes to windows.

Lloyd GEORGE'S Domesday at Kew should survive, with physical descriptions and possibly a rough idea of age. With a name like that probably built c 1897?

[kiterunner]

The information on the Getty Images site says BBC Broadcast Archive Video No 207-61-04 SD, so it looks as though it is an item from the BBC News, maybe from April 1961? But I can't see how to search the BBC Broadcast Archive for a video number or a date, so I can't find it on there. Annoying, because if we could find it, you would probably see the actual building, perhaps when it was due for demolition?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/

[Sue from Southend]

Tower Hamlets Archives have some information but no digitised photos that I could see. It would appear to have been demolished in 1970
http://www.thcatalogue.org.uk/
The search results link doesn't show - I just searched on " Royal Jubilee Buildings"

[Merry]

Thank you both.

The Times states the Housing Minister visited the block in July 1961 and was heckled by some of the residents over high rents, overcrowding and poor conditions. It was mooted that the building was not suitable for modern improvements and that it would best be demolished.

[Merry]

This looks quite hopeful:

http://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/...ture-id3270969

[kiterunner]

Well done.