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Broken lift leaves pensioners stranded
A tower block revered as Camden’s worst kept, left some of its residents stranded when the lift broke down.
For months, the residents of the 161 flats at Taplow, part of the Chalcots estate in Adelaide Road, Swiss Cottage, have become used to being imprisoned in their high rise homes on a regular basis.
From Friday to Monday, a lift was available for a total of just five hours.
Among those affected was an 87-year-old woman in a wheelchair who was unable to get back up to her 21 floor flat.
The council apologised to tenants and asked them to “bear with us” during a programme to replace the block’s other lift, currently out of commission, by 2010.
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