Foxbar
From UK Housing Wiki
Foxbar is a housing estate in the south west of Paisley, Scotland's largest town. It was built between 1952 and 1965 to provide housing for families escaping Paisley's slums. It is located on the side of the Glennifer Braes and partially on the site of the Lounsdale bleachworks.
Foxbar gained a reputation for being one of the best areas to live in the town with its mix of large and middle class homes located in a semi-rural envioronment as well as an even larger number of affordable working class homes in the form of tenements and tower blocks which provided such wonders as indoor toilets!
The estate was a success in terms of housing a large number of people in a safe, healthy envioronement away from the overcrowded town centre and the residents were happy in their new homes. However, it was not exempt from the suburban decay typical of peripheral estates.
Regeneration begun in the 1990s with construction of many new private estates like Amochrie Glen and some tenemental districts were emptied to make way for more new developments.
There were 5 tower blocks in Foxbar:
However, like the tenements, most of these have been sacrificed. Oliphant Court remains, the others have been demolished: Waverley Court in 1996, the rest in 2004.
For an aerial view of the estate: http://wikimapia.org/#y=55823611&x=-4463196&z=15&l=0&m=a&v=2
