Wednesday, December 20, 2017

Sutton Garden Suburb

From Sarah Rutherford, Garden Cities Shire Publications, Oxford, p.56

F. C. Pearson's work on this design is discussed by Rutherford as having 'many features established by Unwin... The integral communal spaces enclosed by houses are now threatened by development in many such suburbs'.

The suburb was (according to Wikipedia) developed under the aegis of Thomas Wall, of Wall's ice-cream fame.

View it here. For orientation, the link will take you to Oak Close, which is the top right-hand corner of the subdivided area.

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