Author name: Richard Clarke

Today’s photo shows the Georgian entrance to the market hall in Hereford town centre, picture taken Christmas Eve.After writing blog 32 I realised that there may have been a connection between the Charterhouse Board school picture and the development of North Hull Estate as some of the children that attended Charterhouse may have been re-home […]

This morning (Wed.) I attended a meeting to discuss a revised website for Hull Civic Soc. (incidentally, the meeting room was part of the ‘Clubhouse’, Elm Avenue, Garden Village estate, East Hull – a fine Arts and Crafts building, more inside than out, and open to the public in the morning throughout the week usually,

Today’s picture, taken from the internet, shows a short section of a street in Hampstead Garden Suburb. Raymond Unwin (1863-1940) was, arguably, more committed to the ideal of improving working class housing that Barry Parker (s.p.b.). ‘The partners preferred the simple vernacular style and made it their aim to improve housing standards for the working

Although sounding for all the world like a comedy double-act Parker and Unwin were very significant in the history of house design in the early 20th century, their residual influence stretching on through the century. Barry Parker (1867-1947 and see above) started an architectural and town planning partnership with Raymond Unwin (his brother-in-law) in 1896.

So to close our case study of inter-war rural council housing in south Holderness it is clear that the newly formed Holderness R.D.C. (s.p.n.s) made a considerable impact on housing accommodation within the region (s.p.b.). Although the new council houses included inside water closets, a very modern asset for low-paid families, no electricity supply was

Holderness Rural District Council had a list of 12 house-types from which to select the best combination for the requirements for a given village (s.p.b.s). By 1940, in the ex-Skirlaugh R.D.C. parishes nine of the 12 had been built, at Brandesburton five of the 12 were chosen for the new council houses there, three types