Housing diversity (Andover Road)
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Housing diversity (Andover Road)
Image: © Ian Capper Taken: 15 Nov 2007
A series of photos showing the diversity of housing in one gridsquare in outer suburbia. For others in series see http://www.geograph.org.uk/search.php?i=1905481. Any further information, such as building dates and what was on the sites before building, would be appreciated. These semis are in Andover Road, to the west of the railway. Looking at the 1940 1 inch map at http://www.npemap.org.uk/tiles/map.html#546,166,1, these particular houses were already built by then, but what appears on the ground to be a similar development behind Andover Road, in Cathcart Drive, is still blank, with Andover Road itself only being partly developed. Unless the map was not fully up to date, this suggests that building either continued through the early part of the war, or even immediately post war, using similar “off the shelf” designs.
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