| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re::Re:Who is responsible for putting up road nameplates? | |
| Posted by: | Bernard Allen | |
| Date/Time: | 20/01/20 21:18:00 |
| I haven't seen this information before, Still doesn't answer the question. https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/middx/vol7/pp54-68 After the First World War there was little room for building in the northern half of the parish, where almost all the market gardens had vanished and the existing commons had been preserved for recreation. South of Burlington Lane, however, in addition to land which had been acquired by private sports clubs, (fn. 270) the duke of Devonshire still owned c. 200 a. of fields and gardens. Plans to sell them to the Brentford Gas Co. were frustrated by public protest and in 1923 they were bought for recreation by the U.D.C., (fn. 271) which retained some and leased or sold the rest. (fn. 272) Much of the peninsular part of the parish, long known as Duke's Meadows, therefore remained open. Between 1911 and c. 1950 the building rate was about half that of the previous 40 years. (fn. 273) Chiswick Park and avenues such as Lawford and Staveley roads south-west of Chiswick House had finally been built up by 1935, while Chiswick House and its landscaped park were acquired for the public in 1929. Flat building continued, and some encroachment was made on the unbuilt land of the peninsula with new schools, sports pavilions near the river, and houses, as in Alexandra Avenue, along Great Chertsey Road. The most striking changes arose not from the spread of housing but from road widening and the cutting of Great Chertsey Road itself. (fn. 274) The building of council houses, started in 1903 at Strand-on-the-Green, (fn. 275) continued in the period between the World Wars, (fn. 276) and increased after 1945. The sports grounds of St. Thomas's hospital, farther north than most playing fields, survived as an open space between Little Sutton and Grove Park (fn. 277) until their compulsory purchase in 1946. Brentford and Chiswick M.B. there carried out what was then its most ambitious housing scheme, for 220 flats, of which the first six, in Nightingale Close, were occupied from 1949 and a further 96 in 1952. (fn. 278) Other schemes included flats south-east of Burlington Lane in Edensor Road, where 138 were planned in 1948, (fn. 279) and tower blocks on the Hogarth estate, the first of which was named in 1953. (fn. 280) Private building in the whole borough in 1962 accounted for only one quarter of the c. 2,000 dwellings built since 1945. (fn. 281) |