Crawley New Town


Crawley New Town

Crawley was designated a new town in January 1947 and is now the largest inland town in West Sussex. The speaker in this clip is a young girl who has recently moved to Crawley. The image shows.


Architecture of Crawley New Town

Crawley New Town: Economic history Pages 83-89 A History of the County of Sussex: Volume 6 Part 3, Bramber Rape (North-Eastern Part) Including Crawley New Town. Originally published by Victoria County History, London, 1987. This free content was digitised by double rekeying. All rights reserved. Citation:


Crawley New Town

Crawley West Sussex 'Mark One' New Town - Designated 9 January 1947 The second of the New Towns and designed to accommodate London's overspill, Crawley New Town included within its designated area the existing market town of Crawley, the villages of Three Bridges and Ifield and a few surrounding hamlets.


Architecture of Crawley New Town

Northgate Three Bridges Langley Green Pound Hill Ifield (originally intended to be called Ifield Green) Southgate Tilgate Gossops Green The Final Expansion By the 1960s, the New Town had become securely established, and was flourishing. Low unemployment meant a low surplus population, and hence a decrease in the power of capital over labour.


Crawley New Town

The Crawley new town licensed premises committee was set up in 1953 to advise the minister of housing and local government about the number, disposition, and type of new public houses at Crawley. Four public houses had been finished by 1957, and by 1961 the development corporation had provided one public house in each new neighbourhood..


Crawley New Town Crawley Museum

Crawley was designated as a new town on January 9 1947, merging the villages of Three Bridges and Ifield with the small market town of Crawley filling in the gaps. The planners envisaged.


City status to mark Crawley New Town 75th anniversary? Crawley Labour

Crawley Development Corporation was set up in February 1947 by the Government of the United Kingdom to establish, administer and control the development of the New Town of Crawley in accordance with the New Towns Act 1946.


Crawley A New Town Grown Up YouTube

This paper examines the occupational class structures of New Towns, in particular Crawley New Town, in the light of such policies. A considerable degree of class balance has been achieved in the town as a whole but neighbourhoods have begun to take on distinctive class characteristics. However, the evidence as a whole does not justify the.


The Birth of Crawley; Master plan for Crawley New Town, 1947 (Par 60/26

Latest news Crawley bidding to be the first New Town to become a city Published: 21 October 2021 From: Business and economy Crawley will apply for city status - on the 75th anniversary of.


Aerial view of the new town Crawley Sussex. 1950;Princess Elizabeth

As the New Year begins, there is one date on the immediate horizon which is of particular resonance for our town. We are approaching the 75th anniversary of the official designation of Crawley as a post-war New Town on 9th January 1947. Crawley's history, of course, goes back far beyond this date, indeed as far back as the Stone (Neolithic) Age.


Architecture of Crawley New Town

Footnotes CRAWLEY NEW TOWN CRAWLEY (fn. 1) was one of the six original new towns designated under the New Towns Act, 1946, as part of the planning of the London region after the Second World War.


Crawley New Town Paperback Crawley Museum

Crawley New Town 1947-2000, A Historical Atlas of Sussex (Phillimore, 1999) The Story of the New Towns, Eunice Clement (Crawley Museum Society, 2008) Please note that the lists below are largely based on Crawley Development Corporation annual reports for 1956-1958, Goad plans for 1968, 1972, 1976, 1980, 1986, 1998, 2006 and 2012 and later.


CRAWLEY. The Making of a New Town Hardback Crawley Museum

Crawley is an ancient town, having received a charter from King John in 1202, but the remains of this medieval and 18th-century coaching community have been completely engulfed by the planned new town developments, though some medieval buildings have been preserved. The district includes Gatwick Airport, the second major airport serving Greater.


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1. Tilgate Park Source: Pedro Cruz / shutterstock Tilgate Park On Crawley's southern border, Tilgate Park is a former country estate across more than 2,000 acres of sumptuous countryside in the High Weald. It's a joy to navigate the park on foot, on trails through fragrant pine forest and next to the expansive Tilgate Lake.


Architecture of Crawley New Town

Take a look back at Crawley's 70 year history


Crawley New Town Growth of the new town British History Online

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ) is a town and West Sussex. It is 28 miles (45 km) south of , 18 miles (29 km) north of Brighton and Hove, and 32 miles (51 km) north-east of the county town of . Crawley covers an area of 17.36 square miles (44.96 km) and had a population of 106,597 at the time of the 2011 Census