Search results
In 2015 London's population surpassed its previous peak of 8.6 million people. This dataset contains an excel workbook showing borough population estimates and projections for the period 1939...
Jan 7, 2015 · By Adam Taylor. January 7, 2015 at 3:30 a.m. EST. This year, London is expected to reach an important milestone: It will finally surpass the population it had back in 1939, just before World War...
On 31 May 1915 the first aerial bombing raid on London was carried out by a zeppelin, which dropped high explosives over the East End and the docks, killing seven people. There were a further ten airship raids over London during 1915 and 1916 and a further one in 1917.
These reports show that 7,893,399 houses were inspected, and 296,738 were found to be overcrowded, an average of 3.8 per cent. The reports include 74 county boroughs, in which 2,588,020 houses were inspected and 99,581 were found to be unfit, an average of 3.8 per cent.
- Homes Fit For Heroes
- The 1930s
- Slum Clearance in The 1920s and 1930s
- The Campaign Against Overcrowding
- Borough Council Rents in The Interwar Years
- Design and Standard of Accommodation
- Construction and Repair
- Housing Societies and Others: Alternative Sources of Public Housing
- Summary of Public Housing Provided1919–39
In September 1917 Poplar Borough Council learnt fromthe President of the Local Government Board that whenthe war was over, far more reliance would be placed onlocal authorities to provide houses, and that substantial(though at that stage unspecified) financial assistancefrom the public purse would be necessary. (fn. 4) The Council'sresponse shows t...
The emphasis on slum clearance (see below) and theextra subsidy for flats under the Greenwood Act meantthat local authorities built flats rather than cottages inthe 1930s. Though other trends supported that change, (fn. 21) there was in fact little alternative when rebuilding onslum clearance sites in Poplar. The Borough Councilshowed no reluctance...
Slum clearance in Poplar was very slow in the 1920s,mainly because the construction of new dwellings failedto ease the shortage of housing which had built up duringthe First World War. Nevertheless, it was an area wherethe LCC and Poplar Borough Council worked in closeco-operation, with one council sometimes providing alternative accommodation for ...
The 1921 Census revealed a high level of overcrowdingin the Borough of Poplar, with 33,104 people, or 21.2per cent of the population, living at more than two peopleper room. (fn. 60) Nevertheless, virtually nothing was done inthe 1920s to abate overcrowding, although the CountyCouncil's scheme of allowing the Borough Council tonominate some tenants...
From the time of its first housing developments, theBorough Council had protracted arguments over fixingrent levels acceptable to the Ministry of Health and theLCC, both of which had to give their approval. Forexample, in 1925, when the question of proposed rentsfor the Kingfield Street Estate was under discussion, theCouncil found itself under pre...
The housing erected by both the LCC and the BoroughCouncil in the 1920s was architecturally unimaginative.All the Borough's housing schemes during the 1920s andearly 1930s, with the exception of the Chapel HouseStreet Estate, were designed, nominally at least, by theBorough Engineer and Surveyor. The post was held byHarley Heckford (1867 1937), unt...
From soon after its inception, the Borough Council hadcarried out some building works using its direct labourforce under the supervision of the Borough Engineer andSurveyor. (fn. 136) For one of the first of the Borough's housingschemes, Heckford House (1920–1), the Engineer andSurveyor did tender on the basis of using direct labour,but the Ministr...
The 1919 Housing Act included what were termed 'publicutility societies' in its subsidy scheme and allowed aTreasury grant of up to 30 per cent of their initial capitalrequirements. (fn. 2) It was the availability of subsidies to suchsocieties under that and subsequent Housing Acts whichbelatedly allowed some philanthropic societies, andcertain oth...
During the inter-war period the total number of dwellingsbuilt by the two councils within the parish of Poplar was1,567 (835 by the Borough and 732 by the LCC). Thenumbers of dwellings built by the two Councils underthe different Acts is shown in the table: The rehousing of Poplar families on LCC estatesoutside the borough has to be taken into cons...
Aug 19, 2021 · xxiv, 157 pages : 33 cm. Addeddate 2021-08-19 03:40:10 Associated-names Great Britain.
People also ask
How many people marched to London in 1936?
How many people lived in London in 1939?
How did Slums get rid of overcrowding in the 1930s?
How many people lived in London in 1900?
Mar 3, 2011 · In October 1936, a group 200 men from the north-eastern town of Jarrow marched 300 miles to London.
