Taylor Woodrow Homes - 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.
Taylor Woodrow, formed in 1921 by Frank Taylor of Blackpool and his uncle, Jack Woodrow, who the story goes came into the business as Frank was to young to legally buy land. The company flourished in the 1930s suburban development of London and after wartime work on mostly military building projects, they moved into more general construction as well as houses. I can recall many of their signs, and the four man logo, on numerous 1960s and '70s building schemes in various towns and cities up and down the UK. The name still survives although they are now the subsidiery of a French multi-national.
Taylor Woodrow Homes - 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.
Taylor Woodrow, formed in 1921 by Frank Taylor of Blackpool and his uncle, Jack Woodrow, who the story goes came into the business as Frank was to young to legally buy land. The company flourished in the 1930s suburban development of London and after wartime work on mostly military building projects, they moved into more general construction as well as houses. I can recall many of their signs, and the four man logo, on numerous 1960s and '70s building schemes in various towns and cities up and down the UK. The name still survives although they are now the subsidiery of a French multi-national.