please empty your brain below

All north of the river, then?

Merry Christmas, all.
"Two blocks south ". This is West Acton, not the west side of New York City.
Ah, I know this one. I certainly wasn't familiar with your N22, E6, and RM8 examples.

All very interesting, of course.
"All north of the river, then"

SE23 3JJ, according to StreetMap, but even Google Street View hasn't dared venture there.


Bob clearly got out the wrong side of bed, the miserable sod.
Noel Road is part of the estate of houses built between 1924 and 1931 by the Great Western Railway Garden Village Society mainly for employees of the railway. The houses were designed by GWR architect T Alwyn Lloyd, who worked with Raymond Unwin. Despite their humble origins (£800 when built), these houses are now much sought after (£800,000 and more)!

There's an old aerial photo at: http://www.britainfromabove.org.uk/image/epw020880
There's still a sports club between the houses and the railway line with a neat football pitch and an attractive pavilion, and another welcoming café in the changing room block in the middle of the big square playing field space at the eastern end of the road.
...i wonder if there are any employers who still build houses for their employees?
Thanks ActonMan. That's the level of detail I was hunting for (but alas, Googling street names tends to bring up nothing more than a long list of property websites).
ActonMan, great name, and what Bob and Simon said; thanks DG for discovering my geographic kinfolk.
See: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/facebook/10354270/Facebook-to-build-luxurious-120-million-housing-complex-for-staff-.html
..but that's in California. No sign of any Amazon Garden Villages in the UK yet, in the tradition of Titus Salt, Cadburys, Rowntree or Bata. I doubt if there are even many nurses homes or police section houses left for staff to live in. That leaves the MoD, 'International Farm Camps' where migrant agricultural workers are housed four to a room, or begrudgingly built 'affordable housing'










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