Ayr Court, Hanger Hill
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Ayr Court, Hanger Hill
Image: © Des Blenkinsopp Taken: 14 Jun 2013
Part of the Hanger Hill Garden Estate. Developed between 1928 and 1932 on land that had been an airfield in the first world war. This quote is from the residents association website. "The Hanger Hill Garden Estate is one of the finest examples of what is popularly known as Mock Tudor architecture. But don't mock it too hard. The style is no longer unfashionable: the Estate's quiet surroundings, disturbed only by birdsong and the snuffling of hedgehogs in the privet on summer evenings, are within easy reach of both Heathrow and central London. The houses and flats on the Estate command high prices and residents will bear witness to the reality of what the writer Nicklaus Pevsner has described as "the beau ideal of romantic ideal Metroland". A full history plus slideshow is on http://www.hhgera.com/page4.htm Anyone like me with a soft spot for suburbs has got to be impressed by this place.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.520212
Longitude
-0.283506