I have lived in Highpoint 1 since August 2004. My partner Jane and I had been admiring the architecture from across the road at The Wrestlers pub, (in a strangely similar way to Lubetkin, who was apparently informed that the building opposite was for sale by the landlord). Following an upturn in our finances, we decided to take the plunge and look for an available flat, aided and abetted by the owner of The Wrestlers and one, Les Dennis, who lived nearby. A tour of the proper

I bought flat 3 in 2012 not realising its fascinating history until Joanna Moorhead, a Guardian journalist at that time, got in touch. She said her cousin, the British Surrealist artist Leonora Carrington, who had lived in Mexico until her death in 2011, had visited my flat in the 1930s. From this a very interesting story emerged: it turned out Erno Goldfinger, Hungarian architect and emigre, and his heiress wife Ursula Blackwell (of the Crosse and Blackwell family) had rente