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Public housing became needed to provide "homes fit for heroes" in 1919, [5] [6] then to enable slum clearance.Standards were set to ensure high-quality homes. Aneurin Bevan, a Labour politician, passionately believed that council houses should be provided for all, while the Conservative politician Harold Macmillan saw council housing "as a stepping stone to home ownership". [7]
Typical Tudor Revival flats on Monks Drive, in the Garden Estate. Hanger Hill or Haymills Estate is a local area of the London Borough of Ealing around Hanger Lane . It was developed in the interwar period when affluent Londoners began to move out of Central London for more green spaces. The estate features spacious houses and flats designed by ...
Built by London County Council outside of the then-limits of County of London. Population over 100,000; asserted to be the largest public housing development in the world. Chalkhill Estate: 1966–70 built Wembley Park area of Brent, London: 1,900
This authority combined with the municipal boroughs of Ealing and Southall to form the London Borough of Ealing, within Greater London, in 1965. [4] An Acton Golf Club was founded in 1896, which closed in 1920 and the area was redeveloped for housing. [9] Acton formed an urban district and, later, municipal borough of Middlesex from 1894 to ...
Ealing is home to Ealing Studios, and was a major centre of the UK film industry. Brentford F.C. draw a large amount of local support from the borough, although Griffin Park is situated just outside the borough, in the neighbouring London Borough of Hounslow.
The allotments were created from common land on 7 November 1832, by order of Charles James Blomfield, Bishop of London and lord of the manor of Ealing.The common was Ealing Dean Common, being in Ealing Dean, and was also known as Jackass Common, after the donkey and pony races held there in the summer.
The Ealing Common Area is bounded by Ealing Town Centre to the west, North Ealing and Hanger Hill to the north, Acton to the east and South Ealing and South Acton to the south. The Ealing Common open space is bounded by Gunnersbury Ave to the east and the Uxbridge Road to the north. A smaller area of the common extends to the east of ...
Skinflats is a small village in the Falkirk council area of Scotland. It is located 1.5 miles (2.4 km) north-west of Grangemouth, 1.1 miles (1.8 km) east of Carronshore and 2.3 miles (3.7 km) north-east of Falkirk. It lies on the A905 road between Glensburgh and Airth, near to the River Carron and the point where it flows into the Firth of ...