The flats were built by the Metropolitan Association for Improving the Dwellings of the Industrious Classes in 1880 and originally comprised 3 brick blocks of flats and a row of'cottages' which originally housed older relations of people living in the blocks.
The flats were built by the Metropolitan Association for Improving the Dwellings of the Industrious Classes in 1880 and named in honour of Thomas Field Gibson who was a Director of the Association from its inception. It originally comprised 3 brick blocks of flats and a row of'cottages' which originally housed older relations of people living in the blocks.