14th Floor events coming up! Film screening and panel debate

14th Floor film screening
Thursday 7th October 2010, 6.30pm
Rochelle School, Arnold Circus

14^th Floor is a documentary film by Shane Davey about the history of social housing in Tower Hamlets. Using rarely seen imagery from the archive collections and interviews with former and current residents, architects, artists and historians, the film charts the development of social housing in the East End.

Shane who lives in Poplar explained: “The unique context provided by the extreme deprivation and slum clearances of the 19th century and the postwar reconstruction of the Blitz-damaged borough provided fertile ground for experimentation in addressing key issues of poverty and regeneration. But how did this affect the lives of local people and families, whose homes were lost, made and re-made?”

Earlier this year Shane won the 28 Day Feature Film Challenge: Best Film Award with The Horror of the Dolls, a chilling movie set in Poplar's Balfron Tower. 14th Floor will have its premiere at Rochelle School (the former school which served the first Old Nichol slum and later the Boundary Estate and is now a converted gallery) at 6.30pm.

Directions: www.afoundation.org.uk/london/visitus.php
Nearest tube: Shoreditch High St

Booking required via localhistory@towerhamlets.gov.uk or call 020 7364 1290

Panel discussion and book signing

Monday 4th October, 6.00pm
Tower Hamlets Local History Library & Archives, Mile End

A panel discussion with Lynsey Hanley (author of Estates: an intimate history), Mike Tyrrell, CEO of Tower Hamlets Community Housing and Marcel Baettig, CEO of Bow Arts Trust. Before the talks, project manager Shane Davey with a volunteer will talk briefly about their experience on the 14th Floor project, especially the making of the documentary which premieres on Thursday 7th October at Rochelle School.

Venue: Tower Hamlets Local History Library & Archives, 277 Bancroft Road, London E1 4DQ
Nearest tube: Mile End / Stepney Green

Free but booking required via localhistory@towerhamlets.gov.uk

or call 020 7364 1290