Wates famous Dormy House - advert in New Towns Exhibition Catalogue, 1959
From the catalogue issued to accompany the 1959 exhibtion on the UK's fifteen designated New Towns an advert for a slightly rare beast in all of them - private development property. Although intended to include a planned, balanced mix of homes and industrial developments the New Towns, usually run by Development Corporations that 'over-ruled' aspects of local authority control, were mostly built with social housing and so homes such as this were in a minority.
Wates are still in business as a construction company and date back to 1897. In the pre-war period they were into speculative suburban development in quite a way but during the war, and post-war period, moved into more general construction. This advert is for 'luxury' homes in Basildon and Slough (not a New Town as such) with, shortly, homes being built in Hemel Hempstead and Crawley.
Wates famous Dormy House - advert in New Towns Exhibition Catalogue, 1959
From the catalogue issued to accompany the 1959 exhibtion on the UK's fifteen designated New Towns an advert for a slightly rare beast in all of them - private development property. Although intended to include a planned, balanced mix of homes and industrial developments the New Towns, usually run by Development Corporations that 'over-ruled' aspects of local authority control, were mostly built with social housing and so homes such as this were in a minority.
Wates are still in business as a construction company and date back to 1897. In the pre-war period they were into speculative suburban development in quite a way but during the war, and post-war period, moved into more general construction. This advert is for 'luxury' homes in Basildon and Slough (not a New Town as such) with, shortly, homes being built in Hemel Hempstead and Crawley.