THE WORKING-CLASS OWNER-OCCUPIED HOUSE OF THE 1930s

MODERN HISTORY: M.LITT: HILARY TERM 1998
Alan Crisp M.Litt Oxford Thesis 1998 Email

At the end of this thesis is an earlier piece produced for the Open University called

ART AND SOCIETY IN HE 1930S AS REFLECTED AND CONDITIONED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE TIME.



BIBLIOGRAPHY

THE OWNER-OCCUPIED WORKING CLASS HOUSE OF THE 1930s.

MODERN HISTORY: M.LITT: HILARY TERM 1998

PRIMARY SOURCES

1.ARCHIVE COLLECTION


Bodleian Library
Addison Papers.

Building Societies Association Library
Correspondence between the Association and the societies.

British Library of Political and Economic Science.
London School of Economics
New Survey of London Papers NSOL

Nuffield College
Social Reconstruction Survey 1941.

Greater London Record Office
Minutes of Labour Party for Southall.
Wages Rates for L.C.C. 1929-1939.

Harrow Library
Rating and Valuation Lists.

Uxbridge Library
Private papers of the Minet family developers of the Minet estate Hayes
Rating and Valuation Lists.

University of Sussex
Mass Observation Archive, Directive Replies and file reports.


2. OFFICIAL PAPERS AND PUBLICATIONS

Board of Trade, Report of An Enquiry Into Working-Class Rents and Retail Prices,(1912)
Central Statistics Office, Retail Prices 1914-1990.
Census of England and Wales, 1931.
Hansard, Parliamentary Debates.
Ministry of Fuel and Power, Heyworth Report,(1944)
Department of Health and Social Security. Technical Volume Part II Housing Policy, (1977).

Minister of Health, Report on the Design of Dwellings.
Ministry of Health. Annual Reports from 1930-39.
Minister of Health. Private Enterprise Housing, (1944).
Minister of Health. Inter-Departmental Committee on the Rent Acts,(1924).
Ministry of Health, Report of the Departmental Committee on the High Cost of Working Class Housing,(1924).
Ministry of Health. The Cost of House-Building, (1948).
Ministry of Health,The Gas Industry,(1945). The Heyworth Report.
Ministry of Health. Building Working Class Dwellings,(1921).
Ministry of Health, Houses We Live In.(1939).
Ministry of Health, Rates and Ratable Values, England and Wales 1931-39.
Ministry of Health, Report of the Inter Departmental Committee on Housing, (1933).
Ministry of Health, Report of the Departmental Committee on Valuation for Rates, (1939).
Ministry of Health, Garden Cities and Satellite Towns,(1935).
Ministry of Health for Scotland, Planning Our New Homes,(1944).
Housing Advisory Committee,(1944). The Dudley Report.
Minister of Housing, Report of the Committee of Enquiry into Certain Matters concerning Labour in Building and Civil Engineering, 1967-68. The Phelps-Brown Report.
Ministry of Labour, Harncott Report,(1924).
Minister of Labour, Report on Changes in Rates of Pay and Hours of Labour in the U.K., (1910).
National House Building Studies, (1944).
President of the Local Government Board and the Secretary for Scotland, Committee appointed to Consider Questions of Building Construction in Connection with the Provision of Dwellings for the Working Classes in England and Wales, and Scotland and Report upon Methods of Securing Economy and Despatch in the Provision of Such Dwellings,(1918).The Tudor Walters Report.
Royal Commission on the Geographical Distribution of Industrial Population ,(1940).
Treasury, Committee on the Working of the Monetary System,(1959).

3 .NEWSPAPERS AND JOURNALS

The Amateur Gardener.
The Architects Journal.
The Banker.
The Builder.
The Building Societies Gazette.
The Building Societies Year Book.
Country Life.
The Economic Journal.
Economic History Review.
The Economist.
The Estates Gazette.
Daily and Sunday Express.
The Illustrated Carpenter and Builder.
Journal of the Town Planning Institute.
Kelly's Directory, Middlesex, 1935 and 1936
Labour.
Daily Mail.
London Journal
Ministry of Labour Gazette.
National Builder
News Chronical.
The Times.
The New Statesman.
The Uxbridge Gazette.
Western Post

4 . CONTEMPORARY BOOKS, REPORTS, ARTICLES, PAMPHLETS, FILMS.

Aldcroft, Derek. Building in the British Economy between the Wars,(1968).
Ashworth, A. The Genesis of Modern British Town Planning,(1984).
Ashworth, H.Housing: Housing Standards,(1947).
---------------.The Building Society Story,(1980).
---------------.Housing: Demand and Supply,(1946).
Auden, W and Isherwood,C.The Dog Beneath the Skin,(1947).
Bakke, E.W. The Unemployed Man,(1933).
Barley, M.Houses and History,(1986).
Bellman, C.H..The Building Trades in Britain in Recovery,(1936).
-----------------.The Thrifty Three Millions,(1935).
----------------. Bricks and Mortals,(1949).
----------------- Capital Confidence and the Community,(1938).
Bentley,I.Responsive Environments,(1985).
Bertram,A.The House,(1935).
Bosanquet, H.Housing Conditions in London, the Economic Journal 27,(1917).
Bourneville Village Trust. The Bourneville Village Trust 1990-1955,(1955).
-------------------------------.When we Build Again,(London 1941).
Bowley, M.Housing and the State 1919-1944, (1945).
--------------.The British Building Industry,(1966).
---------------Innovations in Building Materials,(1960).
Brabrook,E. Building Societies,(1906).
Brown,A.Oxford Economic Papers,(1940).
Brunskill, R. Traditional Buildings of Britain ,(1992).
...................Illustrated Handbook of Vernacular Architecture,(1971).
Builder, The Bungalows and Small Houses,(1937).
Building Centre.Three Bedroomed Cottage, (1933).
Building Centre Committee.Housing Vol 1.(1933).
Building Societies Association.Understanding Building Societies,(1987).
Burnett, J. A Social History of Housing,(1986).
Cassell, M.Inside Nationwide, One Hundred Years of Co-operation., (1984).
Coad, R Laing,(1979).
Cornes,J.Modern Housing,(1905).
Clapham, J.An Economic History of Modern Britain,(1926).
Clark,A.The Effects of the Factory System,(1899).
Cleary, E.J. The Building Society Movement.,(1965).
Massey,P. Expenditure of 1,360 British Middle-Class Households in 1938-39,(1942).
Davies, G.and Davies, J. Building Societies and their Branches,(1981).
Day,C..Places of the Soul.,(1990).
Dearle,N.Problems of Unemployment in the London Building Trades,(1908).
Doling,J. and Stafford,B.Home Ownership:The Diversity of Experience,(1989).
Done,J.The Development of Building Land Transactions,XLIII 1910-11..
Donnison, P.Housing Policy Since the War in Occasional Papers on Social Administration,,(1960).
Daunton, M.Metropolis:Cardiff 1870-1914,(1977).
---------------A Property Owning Democracy?(!987).
---------------Housing in F.Thompson, The Cambridge Social History of Britain 1750-1950(1990)
Falkus, M. Always under Pressure,(1988).
Feinstein,C.Domestic Capital Formation in the United Kingdom 1920-39,(1965).
Gaskell, S.Model Housing from the Great Exhibition to the Festival of Britain,(1987).
Gloag,J. The Englishman's Castle,(1944).
Grant,C.Built to Last,(1992).
Halifax Building Society,A Remarkable Success Story.,(1992).
---------------------------- Eighty Years of Home Building,The Halifax Plan.,(1937).
Hennessy,P.Never Again,(1992).
Hilton, J.Rich Man, Poor Man.,(1938).
---------.-Ninety Years On, an Account of Bourneville Trust,(1991).
Hodson,H.Slump and Recovery 1929-1937,(1938).
Holmes, A and Green,E.Midland 150 Years Of Banking Business,(1986).
Homes for the People, film (1945)
Housing Problems, Ministry of Information film,(1935).
Howard,E.Garden Cities of Tomorrow,(1902).
Ideal Home Catalogues in the 1930s.
Jackson,A Semi-Detached London, (1973 and 1991).
-------------The Middle-Classes 1900-1950,(1960).
Jenkins,A.On Site, (1971).
------------.Built on Team Work,(1980).
Kelter,C Hayes, A Concise History,(1982).
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Marwick,A.British Society Since 1945,(1982 and 1990).
Mass Observation, Peoples Homes,(1943).
McDonald,J.Modern Housing,(1931).
Merrett,A Owner Occupation in Britain.,(1982).
-------------State Housing in Britain,(1939).
Middlesex Polytechnic Little Palaces,(1987).
Midland Association of Building Societies,Great Strides, (1970).
Mitchell, B.and Deane, P. Abstract of British Historical Statistics,(1962).
-------------------------------.Second Abstract of British Historical Statistics, (1971).
Morris,W.News from Nowhere,(1995).
Mumford,L.Speculative Housing 1918-39,(1954).
Mowat,C.Britain between the Wars, 1918-1940, (1972).
Muthesius,S.The English Terraced House,( 1982).
---------------.The English House,(1979).
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Nuttgens,P The Home Front,(1989).
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Spring-Rice,R. Working Class Wives, (1939).

Stevenson, J and Cook C..The Slump,(1977).
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Swenarton,M. Homes Fit for Heroes,(1981).
----------------- Artisans and Architects,(1989).
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Tarbuck,E Handbook of House Property,(1938).
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-----------Nothing Gained by Overcrowding,(1912).
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5. THESES

Bundock,J.D..Speculative House builders and some Aspects of the Activities of the Speculative House builder within the Greater London Outer Suburban Area. 1919-1939.(M.Phil Thesis, University of Kent, 1974).
Etherington,W.A Peaceful Path to Real Reform?A Critical Review of the Ideal of Social Mix(Unpublished M.T.P. thesis 1975, University of Adelaide.)

6. QUESTIONNAIRES AND INTERVIEWS.

(a) Interview with Mrs J.Harrison of Bourne Avenue at the Uxbridge Library, 5 and 12 December 1993.
(b) Telephone discussions on the 3 and 5 January 1993 with Mr R.Rushworth formerly general manager of the Burnley Building Society.
(c) Telephone discussions on 5 and 7 January 1994 with Douglas Davenport, a manager of the Woolwich Building Society.
(d) Meetings and telephone discussions in June 1992 and April 1993 with Edwin Green the historian of the Midland Bank.
(e) Meeting and telephone discussions in March and April 1993 with John Booker the curator of Lloyds Bank.
(f) Meetings in December 1992 and April 1993 and also in June and July 1993 with Jessie Campbell, archivist of Barclays Bank.
(g) Meeting on 14 February 1994 with Edward Foskett formerly with Martins Bank in Liverpool.
(h) Telephone discussions in January and February 1884, with Harvey Leonard former chairman of the Brighton and Sussex Building Society and one time president of building societies federation.
(i) Telephone discussions and exchange of letters in February 1994 with Charles Morgan formerly with the Bristol and West building society.
(j) Telephone conversation in January 1994 with George Lee's and Harry Tees both former managers with the Bristol and West Building Society.
(k) Telephone conversation in January 1994 with H.Farnish a former deputy general manager of the Eastern Counties Building Society.
(l) Correspondence and telephone discussion in January 1994 with R.Hugh, the company secretary of the Northern Rock Building Society.
(m) Various meeting, telephone conversations and exchanges of letters with Frank Taylor during 1993 and 1994
(n) Several discussion and telephone calls in the period March 1992 to July 1995 with Alf Hood, Ron Nelan, Peter Stanton and Bob Herbert who worked as a tradesmen, mainly carpenters, plasterers and plumbers in the west London area for speculative builders and who were buyers of homes from speculative builders.
(o)Discussions in January 1993 with F. Pays a former Halifax Building Society manager.
(p)Discussions in February 1993 with G.Woolnough a former general manager of the Nationwide Building Society.
(q)Discussions with 23 people who had been buyers of houses in the 1930s.