Author name: Richard Clarke

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

Chapter five of my thesis (s.p.b.s and section three of this website) dealing with ‘House Types and Costs’ mainly focusses on primary sourced evidence about Driffield Rural District Council because they actually built some 1920s/’30s council housing while Skirlaugh R.D.C. were just converting the ex-workhouse at Skirlaugh (s.p.b.s). However, listed below are some details of