Postwar Britain

The plan and model to rebuild London after WW2.

The rebuilding of a nation

J. Berger och l. Marshall at a model of a part of London. The model shows the buildings, roads, public buildings and parks as it is planned to look. The 1944 Abercrombie Plan for London proposed eight new towns within 50 miles (80 km) of London for up to 500,000 people from inner London. Similar recommendations were made for other major conurbations including Manchester and Birmingham. The 1945 Attlee Government set up a New Towns Commission to formally consider how best to repair and rebuild urban communities ravaged in World-War II.


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The picture is only one of many from the photographers trip to England in the autumn of 1945. There is a unique oportunity to have the entire collection to make a great photo book of the postwar era.

About the picture

Photo by swedish photographer KG Kristoffersson was in England 1945 for three months, shortly after the ww2 had ended. Read more about him and see unique unpublished photography from postwar Britain.

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