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Description: | Up until about 1830 Alpha Street did not exist and the land formed part of Brown's Nurseries. It appears that houses in Alpha Street were 'Copyhold ' until the Property Act was passed in 1922. This meant that tenants owned a holding by copy of the Court Roll and this formed their title deed.
Alpha Street still has a significant number of 19th century houses although these have, in many cases, been altered with bay windows and porches being added to the street elevation. The houses are mainly two storeys with slate-covered pitched roofs and facing brick walls; plain but with pleasing proportions.
Later two fine oast houses were built on the east side or Alpha Street, and in the 1920s were owned by Messrs Bloxsomes, the Maltsters. The oast houses were demolished in the 1930s when a garage for Green Line Coaches was built. | Format: | image/jpeg | License: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.exe?a=query&p=gateway&f=generic_sitetext%2ehtm&_IXFIRST_=1&_IXMAXHITS_=1&cms_con_core_subtype%3acms_con_text_what=copyright&%3acms_sys_group=%22sopse%22 | Rights holder: | Slough Library | Subjects: | Houses ; Shops Crisp Electrical ; A. E. Wilson | Temporal: | start=1981-01-01; end=1981-12-31; | Source: | Sense of place SE | Creator: | Reg Harrison | Identifier: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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