Caroline Lwin was an architecture student at the Bartlett School, University College London (UCL).

She moved into number 12 Tolmers Square with fellow students Barry Shaw, Nick Wates, Pedro George, Doug Smith and Atalia Avrahami in September 1973.

She played a leading role with Nick Wates in organising the campaign against the Levy deal including helping to set up the Tolmers Village community office and exhibition and laying out the first newsletters.

Nick and Caroline left 12 Tolmers Square in 1976 to go travelling in North and Central America. On their return they lived in a ground floor flat in 189 North Gower Street for a few months and then squatted the top three floors of number 10 Tolmers Square until 1979 when the Square was emptied and demolished. During this time Caroline worked for some of the leading architectural practices of the day, including Foster Associates and Terry Farrell and Partners, and she also played a crucial role in developing the Tolmers People’s Plan.

At the end of the Tolmers occupation, Nick and Caroline moved to Limehouse where they got married and had two children, Mae and Max. In 1988 they moved to Hastings where Caroline continued to work as an architect. She and Nick divorced but she remained in close touch with many of her Tolmers friends.

Caroline died of cancer in 2014.