Twentieth-century houses on First Avenue
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Image: © John Sutton Taken: 5 Sep 2013
These houses were built on what had been the large gardens of some of the substantial villas built c 1850-70, when First, Second and Third Avenues were established as some of the first part of the new suburb north of The Forest, part of the Borough's expansion after the Enclosure Act of 1845.