East Oxford’s lnterwar Estates
Saturday 14 October, 10 am
Ticket price £8
This two-hour walk will look at the interwar speculative and council estates in Cowley/Rose Hill. Our guide, Frances Moody graduated from Oxford University with a Distinction in her Local History Master of Studies Degree. The walk will start at Rose Hill, and will look at the council and speculative estates there and in Florence Park, Rhymers Lane and White City, finishing on Cumberland Road in the first ever council estate. Frances will focus on the styles of the housing, the rationale behind their design and plan, and will talk about the people who first lived in the houses.