Describing the Hampstead Garden Suburb recently visited by the King, the "Daily Express" says;—" Broad, tree-lined roads run in and out among the five hundred villas and cottages which have sprung up in less than two years on the open heath, ten minutes' walk from Gulden's Green Tube Station. The houses are of all sizes-alike only in that each one, however small, ban airy rooms and a bathroom. They range from the deepeaved rouiih-cast cottage at (is Cid a week to the substantial "Queen Anne" villa at AT.UO a year. Each one has a garden back and fron r , bright with ilowers and shaded by apple, plum and tenant. The llanipste: ! .ci Garden Suborb will provide house's for ten thousand people, the. number of house. 1 ; being limited to an average of eight to the acre, with one family only in each, house. Park-like patches of llowers and green lawns lill the corners of. the sunny suburb which has been built round the trees and natural woodland of the Ilampfdead heights. I'laying site;- for children, recreation grounds, tennis courts, bowling greens, and an institute and ciub rooms are there, and two churches have been
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King Country Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 351, 8 April 1911, Page 3
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