Apollo Pavilion

Sunny blunts housing today gallery

The elevations on these houses have had modifications made. How these two particular houses looked originally is contained in the Sunny Blunts housing 1960s folder in the gallery section

Those houses that still exist today with the original flat roof design had entered into private ownership prior to the local authority carrying out major modifications in the 1980s

View of Oakerside Drive looking north towards Passfield Way as it appears today

Though most of the houses have changed in appearence the plan layout of the Sunny Blunts estate remains largely as it was originally built

Though most of the houses have changed in appearence the plan layout of the Sunny Blunts estate remains largely as it was originally built

Since the mid 1980's most of the houses in Sunny Blunts have had pitched roofs added and the elevations refaced with conventional brickwork

Sunny Blunts today - isolated examples still exist of houses with their original flat roof design and largely unmodified panelled elevations

View looking north at the top end of Oakerside Drive towards Passfield Way

The Apollo Pavilion taken prior to its restoration in 2009

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