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Inside the Barnet housing block only for older women

In the leafy suburb of Chipping Barnet there's a housing block that's been described as a "feminist utopia".

With residents aged from 58 to 94, New Ground is the UK鈥檚 first housing community exclusively for older women. Setting it up was an 18-year battle, but now the purpose-built development is entirely managed by the women who made it possible, as an alternative to living alone.

成人快手 Radio London's Anna O'Neill has been to meet resident Jude Tisdall, who has been living there for 7 years, to find out what it's really like to live in a block without men.

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