Little boxes made of ticky tacky

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The photograph on this page of Little boxes made of ticky tacky by Rob Candlish as part of the Geograph project.

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Little boxes made of ticky tacky

Image: © Rob Candlish Taken: 11 Aug 2010

Once the railway line through Ware had been electrified in 1960 speculative developers wasted little time buying up farm land to the north of the town and covering it with characterless housing estates like this one. This view is taken in Kingsway. The houses here were constructed by a speculative builder based in Waltham Cross with the appropriate name of Leach. They originally sold for about £3,500 each and now change hands for over £250,000. The title for this shot comes from a satirical 1960s song by Pete Seeger.

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Image Location

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51.818389
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