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Description: | Pictured here is a 'before and after' scene of road building at Sudbury Court Estate, Wembley from a promotional booklet published by the British Portland Cement Association in 1929.
The booklet is aimed at councils who were just then taking over responsibility for road building on speculative estates, enabling them to lay down utilities in advance. Previously road building had been a very ad-hoc endeavor, often happening once people were living in their new houses - so causing much upheaval and uncertainty.
The booklet mentions that at Sudbury a 6 inch thick road was laid, on a clay substrate, that the houses were built after the roads and that, when selling houses on these estates, there is 'no doubt that concrete roads give an aspect of cleanliness and solidity as a first impression.'
(JA) | Format: | image/jpeg | Publisher: | MoDA | Rights holder: | MoDA, Museum of Domestic Design & Architecture (Middlesex University) | Subjects: | Cityscape | Temporal: | 1929 | Source: | Museum of Domestic Design and Architecture | Identifier: | http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/rser... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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