Garden Village is an area of

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housing built in the early 1900s, in the Summergangs area of

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, England, for the workers of Reckitt & Sons.

History and description

The village was built on of land by the 'Hull Garden Village Co.', a company with £200,000 of capital of which two-thirds was contributed by Sir James Reckitt, and with two-thirds of the housing reserved for his workers. The company's dividends were limited to 3%. The estate opened in 1908, its design was influenced by the ideas of the

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. The design was by architects Percy Runton and William Barry. By 1913, 600 houses had been built in five sizes and with twelve different styles, generally with a short front garden and long back garden, often accessed by a 'ten-foot' alley, a low housing density, built of brick often pebble dashed, (some houses received a white ''Medusa Portland cement'' render) with steeply pitched roofs with overhanging eaves, recessed doorways and wood framed windows, privet hedges, and avenued tree planting generalising the design. A second phase of development began in 1923.Sources: * Garden Village Society :
Background Information
*The Garden Village Society
House Positions
*The Garden Village Society
Historical Development
Houses were built at a density of 12 per acre; , with streets named after trees and shrubs. Facilities included a shopping centre, club house, a hostel for female workers, Garden Village Society :
Public Buildings
as well as several almshouses, several of which are

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. A substantial number of the ordinary housing stock are now also listed buildings. During the

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the area was badly damaged by bombing, possibly due to its proximity to Reckitt & Sons' Dansom Lane works. In 1950 the Garden Village company was disbanded; some houses were sold to tenants, the entire estate was bought by the Bradford Property Trust, the open spaces known as 'The Oval' and 'The Playground' were transferred to the

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for a nominal fee. The area became a designated conservation area in 1970.

Church of St Columba

A temporary church dedicated to

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had been built in 1914, on Laburnum Avenue also by the architects Runton and Barry, Houlton :
St. Columba’s Temporary Church
/ref> Laburnum Avenue, Holderness Road, site of a succession of churches a permanent building was constructed and opened in 1929, but was destroyed during the Second World War by bombing. A replacement was constructed using some elements of the old structure. The new church became the parish church for the ecclesiastical parish of

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in 1961.

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