2011

SO9399 : Council Housing - Ashbourne Road

taken 13 years ago, near to Wednesfield, Wolverhampton, England

Council Housing - Ashbourne Road
Council Housing - Ashbourne Road
Pre-war development around 1937 with characteristic concrete block wall to frontage. The properties back on to the railway.
Council Housing in Wolverhampton - 1930s :: SJ9302

Council house building saw a slowdown in the borough following on from the large programme of works that saw the building of the Low Hill and Bushbury Estates between 1925 and 1927. The early 1930s saw limited development on the fringes of the major estates to accommodate residents of slum clearance areas following the Housing Act of 1930. The housing built was of smaller units with more two bedroom properties and smaller three bedroom properties.
The Housing Act of 1935 led to a continuation of this policy with estates built in the north of the town at Elston Hall, Marsh Lane and The Scotlands between 1935 and 1937. Some housing was built in the cleared slum areas in Walsall Street.
The house building programme was brought to a halt by the Second World War in 1940.


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Category: Council houses
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SO9399, 151 images   (more nearby 🔍)
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John M   (more nearby)
Date Taken
Saturday, 12 March, 2011   (more nearby)
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Saturday, 12 March, 2011
Subject Location
OSGB36: geotagged! SO 931 992 [100m precision]
WGS84: 52:35.4657N 2:6.1263W
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OSGB36: geotagged! SO 931 992
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Southeast (about 135 degrees)
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