Broxbourne Park, Hertfordshire - looking south : illustration from "Future Magazine Number IV : Futura Publications Ltd., London : nd
Future Magazine was one of a number of post-WW2 publications that aimed to take a view on contemporary current affairs emphasising the opportunities for the reconstruction needed to build a modern world. This issue "Britain in 1955" attempts to look forward to the next decade to see what has developed. The magazine was printed by Adprint Ltd. the interesting printing and publishing company with pre-war German emigré involvement.
This double colour plate is from the Graeter London Plan of 1944, a vast document that looked to reconstruct a modern, less crowded and rigourously planned modern city to sweep away the decay of Victorian slums and wartime damage. One of several such plans that were part of the revolution that helped underpin the Town & Country Planning Act and the New Towns Act this plate by Peter Shepheard shows an idyllic Lee or Lea Valley at Broxbourne with gravel pits repurposed as leisure sites. There would be a Lee Valley Plan and indeed much of the valley was encompassed in the Lee Valley Park. Also shown are the sweep of the new arterial roads effectively equating to what would become the M25 and M11, the latter planned to head north towards Harlow this way but whose route was changed by the MOT to the Roding Valley and the east of the New Town before construction.
The view from Hertfordshire encompassed Essex to the left and Middlesex to the right as the boundaries straddled the river valley, a natural boundary for centuries, here.
Broxbourne Park, Hertfordshire - looking south : illustration from "Future Magazine Number IV : Futura Publications Ltd., London : nd
Future Magazine was one of a number of post-WW2 publications that aimed to take a view on contemporary current affairs emphasising the opportunities for the reconstruction needed to build a modern world. This issue "Britain in 1955" attempts to look forward to the next decade to see what has developed. The magazine was printed by Adprint Ltd. the interesting printing and publishing company with pre-war German emigré involvement.
This double colour plate is from the Graeter London Plan of 1944, a vast document that looked to reconstruct a modern, less crowded and rigourously planned modern city to sweep away the decay of Victorian slums and wartime damage. One of several such plans that were part of the revolution that helped underpin the Town & Country Planning Act and the New Towns Act this plate by Peter Shepheard shows an idyllic Lee or Lea Valley at Broxbourne with gravel pits repurposed as leisure sites. There would be a Lee Valley Plan and indeed much of the valley was encompassed in the Lee Valley Park. Also shown are the sweep of the new arterial roads effectively equating to what would become the M25 and M11, the latter planned to head north towards Harlow this way but whose route was changed by the MOT to the Roding Valley and the east of the New Town before construction.
The view from Hertfordshire encompassed Essex to the left and Middlesex to the right as the boundaries straddled the river valley, a natural boundary for centuries, here.