A plan by C. W. Craske for an estate established by the Hundred Houses Society in Cambridge includes a large playground behind buildings, in this instance from conservationist necessity rather than ideology. ‘The site of a medieval moated farm has been preserved as a children’s playground, and forms a central feature of the scheme, while the rather awkward shape of the site and problems of levels for sewerage have been countered by the use of four culs-de-sac springing fanwise from the children’s playground.’ Craske’s plan appears to have been rejected.
To be honest since I can't locate where it was meant to be, I am not even sure this is an internal reserve - what was adjoining the section at the bottom of this plan?
‘Hundred Houses Society, Ltd.’ Town and Country Planning Vol IV no 13 1935 p.18 (illustration p. 19)
This was indeed built. I lived in one of the houses in the nineties. They were subsequently demolished or refurbished. There was a book on small houses and it featured lots of original images when the houses looked somewhat better than they ended up looking like. They were always such cold and damp houses. They were called Eastfield. Craske also designed Fallowfield by the river. The housing society have an archive of lovely original photos and drawings.
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