PLACES TO VISIT

The year of foundation is given in brackets.

UNITED KINGDOM

Bedford Park, West London (1875): www.bedfordpark.org

Bournville, Birmingham (1895): www.bvt.org.uk/about-us/the-bournville-story

Brentham Garden Suburb, Ealing, London (1901): www.brentham.com

Burnage Garden Village, Manchester (1906): www.burnageheritage.org

Hull Garden Village, East Yorkshire (1907): www.gardenvillagehull.co.uk

Hampstead Garden Suburb, London (1907): www.hgs.org.uk/history; www.hgstrust.org/history

Humberstone Garden Village, Leicester (1906): www.anchortenants.org/origins/index.xhtml

Jordans Village, Buckinghamshire (1919): www.seergreenandjordans.org.uk

Letchworth Garden City (1903): www.gardencitymuseum.org (includes other garden cities)

Moorpool, Harborne, Birmingham (1908): www.moorpool.com/moorpool.ra/

New Earswick, York (1902): www.jrht.org.uk/node/26

Port Sunlight, Merseyside (1888): www.portsunlightvillage.com

Rhiwbina Garden Village (1912): www.rhiwbina.co.uk

Rosyth, Dunfermline, Fife (1915): www.s1rosyth.com/memories/a-brief-history-of-rosyth.xhtml

Saltaire, Bradford (1851): www.saltaire.yorks.com

Silver End, Essex (1926): www.silverend.org

Sutton Garden Suburb, Sutton, Surrey (1912): www.suttongardensuburb.org

Wavertree Garden Suburb, Liverpool (1910): www.walkingbook.co.uk/liverpool/pages/page10.htm; http://wavsoc.awardspace.info/wgs/index.xhtml

Welwyn Garden City (1920): http://welwyngarden-heritage.org

Westerton Garden Suburb, Bearsden, Glasgow (1913): www.westertonvillage.org.uk

Whiteley Village Museum, Cobham, Surrey (1911) by appointment only. Contact Whiteley Village Historical Society via the website: www.whiteleyvillage.org.uk/history_section.php

ABROAD

Colonel Light Gardens, Mitcham, Adelaide, South Australia (1915): www.clghs.org.au

Dessau, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany (1920s)

Haberfield, Sydney, Australia (1901): www.dictionaryofsydney.org/entry/haberfield

Hellerau, Dresden, Germany (1909): www.hellerau/org/english/hellerau/history/the-garden-city

Pinelands, Cape Town, South Africa (1919): http://gadgeteer.co.za/historyofpinelands

Mount Royal Garden Suburb, Calgary, Canada (1914): www.town.mount-royal.qc.ca

Riverside, Chicago, Illinois, USA: http://riverside-illinois.com/History.htm

Weissenhof, Stutttgart (1927): www.weissenhof2002.de/english/weissenhof.xhtml

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By the end of the ‘War To End All Wars’ Punch still mocked, but also lauded the residents who were by now a valued part of Britain (3 July 1918).