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Cirencester Park, Gloucestershire: Ivy Lodge in the heart of the park surrounded by four polo grounds
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NOTES: Cirencester Park, part of the Bathurst Estate, was designed and planted by Allen Bathurst from 1711 with assistance from Alexander Pope.
Illustration demonstrating the advantages of placing health, shopping, recreation, education, work and travel facilities within easy reach of the home
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NOTES: During World War II Erno Goldfinger presented his vision of the reconstruction of a post war Britain in a series of exhibitions mounted for the Army Bureau of Current Affairs (A.B.C.A.). In the 1944 ABCA exhibition entitled 'Planning Your Neighbourhood: for home, for work, for play' Goldfinger proposed a blueprint for the rebuilding of the heavily bombed London district of Shoreditch. The image shown here is page 4 of a bound presentation booklet for the project which was designed for the Air Ministry Directorate of Educational Services.
Cricket on Hill Green, Clavering, Essex
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NOTES: The building on the left is the Methodist Church dating from 1877.
British Industries Fair 1947, Earl's Court, London: stand for Accles & Pollock Limited in the Sports Goods Section
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NOTES: Accles & Pollock of Oldbury, Birmingham, were a tube manipulation company specialising in the manufacture of steel tubular parts for cycles, motors, aeroplanes and sports equipment.