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Multi-storey block details: two 24-storey blocks containing 384 dwellings; twelve 7-storey blocks containing 759 dwellings; Multi-storey block name(s): Hutchesontown Block 9E; Hutchesontown Block 8E; Hutchesontown Block 7E; Hutchesontown Block 6E; Hutchesontown Block 5E; Hutchesontown Block 4E; Hutchesontown Block 3E; Hutchesontown Block 2E; Hutchesontown Block 1E; Hutchesontown Block 12E; Hutchesontown Block 11E; Hutchesontown Block 10E; 200 Sandiefield Road; 170 Sandiefield Road; Image detail: View of 170 Sandiefield Road and 200 Sandiefield Road Original Commissioning Authority: Corporation of the City of Glasgow; Image taken: 1985;Context: Tower Block UK is a project supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund, bringing together public engagement and an openly-licensed image archive in an attempt to emphasise the social and architectural importance of tower blocks, and to frame multi-storey social housing as a coherent and accessible nationwide heritage. The Tower Block UK image archive is a searchable database of around 4,000 images of every multi-storey social housing development built in the UK. The photographs were largely taken in the 1980s by Miles Glendinning and are made available here for public use. As many of the blocks documented and photographed have since been demolished, the archive functions in part as a repository of information on an important aspect of UK heritage that is now vanishing. The archive itself catalogues multi-storey blocks as part of the developments within which they were initially commissioned and built. It gives details of notable dates, such as when local authorities approved the developments and when construction began or finished. Alongside this, the archive provides information on the local authorities, architects, and other agents involved in the processes of commissioning, designing, and constructing mass social housing. While the most historically 'accurate' identification labels in the database are the original overall development or project names, the archive also contains details of the individual blocks built.