Silver End. Voices from the guv'nor's village
Details:
- Author(s) King, Susan
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 1996
- Pages 116pp; illus
- Publisher WEA, Silver End Branch
- Place Published Witham
Topics:
- Name Worker / employee housing & communities
- Name Oral history
- Name Worker / employee management inc control
Countries:
Library:
- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Notes:
Relates the development of Silver End as a garden village to accommodate a factory for the Critall business and 500 [by early 1930s] houses for workers and associated institutions in order to create a self sufficient community. Seeks to show, using documentary sources and oral testimony 'that a social memory has been constructed and continues to exist in Silver End and that this social memory has three main features - the impact of the deeply paternal nature of its inception and early history; the awareness of the early, migrant nature of the village population; and finally the belief that this was a community more interdependent, more vibrant than most'