Brentham Garden Suburb

Neighbourhood in/near North Ealing, existing between 1901 and now.

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Brentham Garden Suburb became a conservation area in 1969.

Mostly built between 1901 and 1915, it was the first garden suburb in London to be built in cooperative principles, predating the better-known Hampstead Garden Suburb by some years.

Brentham’s origins can be traced back to the Arts and Crafts and Garden City movements.

The Arts and Crafts movement was led by William Morris. It was a movement of social reform who advocated the need for beauty in people’s daily surroundings. Morris promoted the revival of traditional methods of building, using locally produced and hand-crafted building materials.

The Garden City movement was founded by Ebenezer Howard. He published a detailed account of his ideas about the planning and economic foundation of towns and cities.

In 1891 Howard established his own building firm, General Builders Ltd. This was a co-operative production venture which by 1897 comprised 17 branches.

One of these was in Ealing, where six members of the firm decided to club together and buy plots. The group met with Henry Vivian (1868-1930), a carpenter, trade unionist and Liberal Member of Parliament.

Vivian was concerned with the improvement of housing conditions, especially for working people encouraged the group of builders not only to build houses, but to form a tenants’ association, which became known as Ealing Tenants. Brentham, as the area was later called, was the pioneer garden suburb of the co-partnership housing movement. It was designed to a plan by the leading garden city architects Barry Parker and Raymond Unwin, with houses, mostly in the Arts and Crafts style.

Hampstead Garden Suburb followed six years later in 1907.

Brentham is noted for its annual May Day festival and for the Brentham Cricket Club.


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Wendy    
Added: 22 Mar 2024 15:33 GMT   

Polygon Buildings
Following the demolition of the Polygon, and prior to the construction of Oakshott Court in 1974, 4 tenement type blocks of flats were built on the site at Clarendon Sq/Phoenix Rd called Polygon Buildings. These were primarily for people working for the Midland Railway and subsequently British Rail. My family lived for 5 years in Block C in the 1950s. It seems that very few photos exist of these buildings.

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Steve   
Added: 19 Mar 2024 08:42 GMT   

Road construction and houses completed
New Charleville Circus road layout shown on Stanford’s Library Map Of London And Its Suburbs 1879 with access via West Hill only.

Plans showing street numbering were recorded in 1888 so we can concluded the houses in Charleville Circus were built by this date.

Source: Charleville Circus, Sydenham, London

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Steve   
Added: 19 Mar 2024 08:04 GMT   

Charleville Circus, Sydenham: One Place Study (OPS)
One Place Study’s (OPS) are a recent innovation to research and record historical facts/events/people focused on a single place �’ building, street, town etc.

I have created an open access OPS of Charleville Circus on WikiTree that has over a million members across the globe working on a single family tree for everyone to enjoy, for free, forever.

Source: Charleville Circus, Sydenham, London

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Charles   
Added: 8 Mar 2024 20:45 GMT   

My House
I want to know who lived in my house in the 1860’s.

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NH   
Added: 7 Mar 2024 11:41 GMT   

Telephone House
Donald Hunter House, formerly Telephone House, was the BT Offices closed in 2000

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Paul Cox   
Added: 5 Mar 2024 22:18 GMT   

War damage reinstatement plans of No’s 11 & 13 Aldine Street
Whilst clearing my elderly Mothers house of general detritus, I’ve come across original plans (one on acetate) of No’s 11 & 13 Aldine Street. Might they be of interest or should I just dispose of them? There are 4 copies seemingly from the one single acetate example. Seems a shame to just junk them as the level of detail is exquisite. No worries if of no interest, but thought I’d put it out there.

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Diana   
Added: 28 Feb 2024 13:52 GMT   

New Inn Yard, E1
My great grandparents x 6 lived in New Inn Yard. On this date, their son was baptised in nearby St Leonard’s Church, Shoreditch

Source: BDM London, Cripplegate and Shoreditch registers written by church clerk.

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Vic Stanley   
Added: 24 Feb 2024 17:38 GMT   

Postcose
The postcode is SE15, NOT SE1

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