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Property	Value
rdfs:label	Albert Shaw House
rdfs:comment	Albert Shaw House was a 16 storey tower block on Longcroft Close on the Castle Vale estate in Birmingham. Plans for the block were approved in 1968 and it was completed in 1969 by Bryant using the Bison construction technique. It was 47 metres tall and contained 60 flats. In its later years, the block was warden controlled and housed many elderly people as well as mentally ill tenants who had been rehoused during the 1980s following the closure of two psychiatric facilities in Birmingham. It was demolished in 1997.
dcterms:subject	Tower blocks built in the 1960s Castle Vale Demolished tower blocks in Birmingham 16 storey tower blocks
abstract	Albert Shaw House was a 16 storey tower block on Longcroft Close on the Castle Vale estate in Birmingham. Plans for the block were approved in 1968 and it was completed in 1969 by Bryant using the Bison construction technique. It was 47 metres tall and contained 60 flats. In its later years, the block was warden controlled and housed many elderly people as well as mentally ill tenants who had been rehoused during the 1980s following the closure of two psychiatric facilities in Birmingham. It was demolished in 1997.