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A History of the County of Chester
… German prisoners of war were already preparing the site at Blacon for the first post-war council housing estate. 13 …
A History of the County of Chester
… Kennerley and Sons, 16 Thomas B. Gorst and Sons, active at Blacon and in Sealand Road, 17 Henry and A. H. Moorcroft, 18 … 1920s 8 and near Bache station between 1935 and 1939. At Blacon, groups of houses sprang up in the late 1930s along … was granted in 1936 and 1939 for over 150 more at Blacon Point. 10 In the south-east corner of Hoole, housing …
A History of the County of Chester
… Lache estate acquired a community centre in 1955. 7 At Blacon, developed entirely after 1945, there were eleven … county borough in 1936. A very large estate was built at Blacon, and smaller ones adjoining each other in Newton and Upton. At Blacon, where temporary dwellings had been erected in 1946, …
A History of the County of Chester
… parts of the city, notably the largest council estate, Blacon, were blighted by all the characteristics of late …
A History of the County of Chester
… 10 In 1936, however, the county agreed to surrender Blacon, the built-up part of Newton, and a part of Hoole …
A History of the County of Chester
… was confined mainly to the council estates, particularly Blacon, whose wards returned 13 of the party's first group of …
A History of the County of Chester
… where the problem was worst: Lache ranked second worst, Blacon Hall seventh, and Dee Point (also in Blacon) thirtieth. In 1993 unemployment reached 40 per cent …
A History of the County of Chester
… large numbers in Hoole, but the big council estates at Blacon and Newton suffered a decline in their shopping …
A History of the County of Chester
… inner-city redevelopment scheme in 1962, with a chapel in Blacon. All the main denominations and many of the smaller …
A History of the County of Chester
… deficient in the large council estates at Lache and Blacon. 1 The importance of the river Dee and the canal both …