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    Romford Garden Suburb (otherwise known as the Gidea Park Exhibition Estate), is a late-Edwardian housing development in Gidea Park, in the London Borough...
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  • There were over 140 entries in the Romford Garden Suburb exhibition, that took place in 1911 in Gidea Park, Romford, now in the London Borough of Havering...
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    Gidea Park (category Romford)
    exhibitions of housing and town planning (the first being known as Romford Garden Suburb) and the construction of a railway station on the main line out...
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    Hampstead Garden Suburb, the Sutton Garden Suburb in Benhilton, Sutton, Pinner's Pinnerwood conversation area and the Romford Garden Suburb in Gidea Park...
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    (31,294) and Romford (16,970) and the pre-First World War housing estates at Emerson Park, Romford Garden Suburb and Upminster Garden Suburb. During the...
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    growth occurred between 1910 and 1911 with the construction of Romford Garden Suburb, which included Raphael Park and Gidea Park railway station. Large...
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    Victorian and Edwardian period. The garden suburbs of Upminster, Emerson Park and Gidea Park (also known as Romford Garden Suburb) were spurred on by the building...
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    formed Gidea Park Ltd with the aim of building a garden suburb, including what became Romford Garden Suburb, on the Gidea Hall and Balgores estates, and during...
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    the Royal Academy of Arts in 1903 and won a first prize in the Romford Garden Suburb exhibition in 1910. In 1921 he designed 160 Piccadilly for the Wolseley...
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  • is completed as a Wesleyan Methodist church. Gidea Park, as the Romford Garden Suburb, and Totterdown Fields, the first London County Council cottage...
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    Park from 1910 into a garden suburb, now known as Romford Garden Suburb, with two other MPs. The suburb started in 1911 Romford as an exhibition to showcase...
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    Upminster is characterised by a shift from farming to brick making to garden suburb. It is currently mainly commercial shopping, small businesses and residential...
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  • Thomas Geoffry Lucas (category Hampstead Garden Suburb)
    contributions (listed in section 2 below). Hampstead Garden Suburb was followed by Romford Garden Suburb at Gidea Park where development began in 1910. Many...
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    the area to the north of Romford Road was ripe for development; the owners, the Gurney family, sold 110 acres of market garden land to Thomas Corbett in...
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    abbreviated to Westcliff, and in the past spelt as Westcliffe-on-Sea) is a suburb of the city of Southend-on-Sea, located within the ceremonial county of...
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    Harold Hill (category Romford)
    location of Dagnam Park house and grounds, and in the Municipal Borough of Romford and the county of Essex, but was transferred to Greater London in 1965...
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    England parish church in the Gidea Park area of Romford, east London. The area had become a garden suburb in the 1910s and a church dedicated to St Michael...
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    Garden Suburb - Joint Project with Brentwood Borough Council". Basildon Council. Retrieved 31 May 2015. "Parties unite to oppose Dunton Garden Suburb...
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    frequent long-distance trains from this station to London Liverpool Street, Romford, Shenfield, Chelmsford, Colchester, Braintree, Bishop's Stortford, Ipswich...
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  • Teddy Bourne (category People from Romford)
    (born 30 September 1948) is a British Olympic épée fencer. He was born in Romford, England. He became a solicitor in London, working as a commercial property...
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    They lived at 34 Compton Avenue, in the new and affluent garden suburb of Gidea Park in Romford, Essex. "Serendipity – Brendan Quayle | Big Muff". Johnmartyn...
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    places in east London formerly of the county of Essex, such as Ilford and Romford were placed into London Boroughs along with Walthamstow. None of the postal...
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    London City Hall". "Decades-old Romford bus route 575 'reluctantly' withdrawn". 25 August 2021. "New bus route linking Romford and Havering-atte-Bower | Transport...
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    suburbs in the home counties. This is particularly pronounced in areas like Romford (in the London Borough of Havering) and Southend (in Essex) which have...
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  • W6 020 TQ233786 Hampstead Camden LONDON NW3 020 TQ265855 Hampstead Garden Suburb Barnet LONDON N2 020 TQ265885 Hampton Richmond upon Thames HAMPTON TW12...
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    by King Charles II in order to feed the burgeoning population of a new suburb of London. Market buildings were sited on the rectangular patch of open...
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    towards Dagenham Heathway, Dagenham Dock, Barking, Ilford, Goodmayes, and Romford. Alf Ramsey Terry Venables Max Bygraves Dudley Moore Sandie Shaw George...
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    station is on the Great Eastern Main Line in the East of England, serving the suburb of Shenfield, Essex. As well as being a key interchange for medium- and...
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  • John (28 April 2023). "Homeowner shocked after body from 60s found in her garden 14 months after moving in". Evening Standard. Archived from the original...
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    Green to find a husband, follows the main road to Bow and then proceeds to Romford, where she finds many suitors. Fairfield Road commemorates the Green Goose...
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