Firstly, just a brief addition to blog 24. The building which Skirlaugh Rural District Council was converting to flats in the late 1920s survives still and has now for many years been local council offices. This unprepossessing building has had a fascinating history with its various internal arrangements being changed to suite changes nationally as […]

Just as the East Riding County Council’s Reconstruction Committee decided on an unusual response to the Addison Housing Act (s.p.b.s), so too did Skirlaugh Rural District Council. The former’s 1920 housing scheme resulted in the building of 12 houses for rural policemen (six as semis), 12 houses for teachers in village schools, two houses for

Of course I am not an expert on the housing history of every location across the Humberside Region but, over time, I have self-taught enough to be able to talk about housing in areas from an amateur, but informed perspective. As seen from page three of this website I have researched and written in detail

Inter-war speculative housing, that is built as a commercial project either to sell and realise a profit on costs or to rent to realise a long-term profit from rentals was the most numerous type of housing built between the wars. Such housing swelled the suburbs, added to the housing stock of villages and studded the

Following Chamberlain’s Housing Act of 1923 (s.p.b.), Wheatley’s Act of the following year increased housing subsidies to local authorities to build working class housing which would rent at between £6 and £9 per week, the period for which the subsidy would be paid being increased to 40 years. Even though this was passed by the

The aim of the post-war National Government was to build 1 million new homes in three years, ‘homes fit for heroes’. In fact this particular ambition was not achieved but across the generation between the Wars over one million new houses were built in Britain. This was a huge increase in the country’s housing stock