Oxhey Drive, South Oxhey
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Oxhey Drive, South Oxhey
Image: © Stephen McKay Taken: 5 Apr 2022
The large London County Council development at South Oxhey was built in the early 1950s to relieve overcrowding in the inner city, where much of the housing stock had been lost due to wartime bombing. The houses here are typical of local authority estates of the era including this terrace on Oxhey Drive. The houses were generally well-built and relatively sizeable with decent gardens - in some ways better than their equivalents built for the private market. They must have seemed like paradise for many of their first residents. Today a majority of the houses at South Oxhey are privately owned.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.62579
Longitude
-0.392069