Austerity Britain, 1945–51 (109 page)

6. Patrick Nuttgens,
The Home Front
(1989), p 67; Holmans, ‘Housing’, p 487; Harriet Jones, ‘“This is Magnificent!”’,
Contemporary British History
(Spring 2000), p 102; Brian Lund,
Housing Problems and Housing Policy
(Harlow, 1996), p 121.

7. Peter Mitchell,
Memento Mori
(Otley, 1990), pp 8 (preface by Bernard Crick), 42, 66;
Yorkshire Observer
, 26 September 1949; Alison Ravetz,
Model Estate
(1974), pp 226–9.

8.
Seán Damer,
‘Last Exit to Blackhill’
(Glasgow, 1992), pp 32–9.

9. Godfrey Winn,
This Fair Country
(1951), pp 109–17.

10
.
The Macmillan Diaries: The Cabinet Years,
1950
–
1957 (2003), pp 23–4;
Picture

11
.
Journal of the Town Planning Institute
(Sept–Oct 1949), p 232; Junichi Hasegawa,
Replanning the Blitzed City Centre
(Buckingham, 1992), pp 108–9;
Observer
, 28 Jan 1951.

12. Nick Tiratsoo,
Reconstruction, Affluence and Labour Politics
(1990), chap 4;
Coventry Evening Telegraph
, 31 Dec 1949;
Listener
, 1 Dec 1949; Winn,
This Fair
Country
, pp 221–3.

13. Nick Tiratsoo, ‘Coventry’, in Tiratsoo et al (eds),
Urban Reconstruction in Britain
and Japan,
1945
–
1955 (Luton, 2002), pp 24–5; Tiratsoo,
Reconstruction
, p 57;
Coventry Standard
, 16 Mar 1951.

14.
New Society
, 8 Feb 1979 (Gordon Cherry);
Evening Standard
, 15 Jan 1951;
Observer
, 28 Jan 1951; C.A.C. Turner, ‘Houses and Flats at Crawley’,
Town and Country
Planning
(Feb 1951), p 83; Harold Orlans,
Stevenage
(1952), pp 120–21;
Daily
Telegraph
, 26 Apr 2003 (Keith Miller);
The Times
, 7 Feb 1950.

15. Nick Tiratsoo, ‘The Reconstruction of Blitzed British Cities, 1945–55’,
Contemporary
British History
(Spring 2000), p 40; C. D. Buchanan and D. H. Crompton, ‘Residential Density and Cost of Development’,
Town and Country Planning
(Dec 1950), pp 514–18; Winn,
This Fair Country
, p 222; Paul Elek,
This Other London
(1951), pp 52–3; Orlans,
Stevenage
, p 106;
The Times
, 25 Jun 1949.

16. Peter Shapely et al, ‘Civic Culture and Housing Policy in Manchester, 1945– 79’,
Twentieth Century British History
, 15/4 (2004), pp 417–20;
Manchester
Guardian
, 3 Mar 1950; David Byrne, ‘The Reconstruction of Newcastle’, in Robert Colls and Bill Lancaster (eds),
Newcastle upon Tyne
(Chichester, 2001), p 343; Benwell Community Project,
Slums on the Drawing Board
(Newcastle upon Tyne, 1978), p 8; Dan Smith,
An Autobiography
(Newcastle upon Tyne, 1970), p 33.

17. Anthony Sutcliffe and Roger Smith,
Birmingham,
1939
–
1970 (1974), pp 428–9, 431; Anthony Sutcliffe, ‘A Century of Flats in Birmingham, 1875–1973’ in Sutcliffe (ed),
Multi-Storey Living
(1974), p 200; Herbert Jackson, ‘Birmingham’s Planning Problems’,
Town and Country Planning
(Jun 1951), pp 221, 281–2; Sutcliffe, ‘Century’, p 200; Gordon E. Cherry,
Birmingham
(Chichester, 1994), p 170; Miles Glendinning and Stefan Muthesius,
Tower Block
(New Haven, 1994), p 167.

18.
Sheffield Telegraph
, 30 Sept 1949, 6 Oct 1949.

19
.
Listener
, 21 Dec 1950, 10 May 1951. In general on Churchill Gardens, see: Nigel Glendinning, ‘Art and Architecture for the People?’, in Jim Fyrth (ed),
Labour’s
Promised Land?
(1995), pp 278–9; Nicholas Bullock,
Building the Post-War World
(2002), pp 85–6.

20. On Matthew and his department’s takeover at the LCC, see: Miles Glendinning, ‘Teamwork or Masterwork?’,
Architectural History
(2003), pp 311–12; Nicholas Bullock, ‘Ideals, Priorities and Harsh Realities’,
Planning Perspectives
(Jan 1994), pp 97–8; Nuttgens,
Home Front
, pp 68–9.

21
. Nicholas Day, ‘The Role of the Architect in Post-War State Housing’ (PhD, University of Warwick, 1988), pp 257–8.

22. Bryan Appleyard,
The Pleasures of Peace
(1989), pp 26–7; Lionel Brett, ‘Post-War Flats in Britain’,
Architectural Review
(Nov 1949), p 315; Bullock,
Building
, pp 57– 8;
Architectural Review
(May 1951), p 299.

23.
The Times
, 13 Feb 1950; Osborn, p 185;
Town and Country Planning
(Apr 1951), pp 151–2.

24
.
Spectator
, 27 Jan 1950; Frank Worsdall,
The Tenement
(Edinburgh, 1979), p 145. 25. Seán Damer,
Glasgow
(1990), p 189; Gerard Mooney, ‘Living on the Periphery’

25
(PhD, University of Glasgow, 1988), pp 220, 229–32, 240–51, 253; Thomas A. Markus, ‘Comprehensive Development and Housing, 1945–75’, in Peter Reed (ed),
Glasgow
(Edinburgh, 1993), p 153.

14 That Dump?

1. Alison Ravetz,
Model Estate
(1974), pp 134, 135; Peter Mitchell,
Memento Mori
(Otley, 1990), p 84;
Yorkshire Evening Post
, 17 Apr 1951.

2.
Yorkshire Evening Post
, 9 Apr 1951;
Sunderland Echo
, 10 Apr 1951; Mark Lewisohn,
Funny, Peculiar
(2002), pp 176–7;
Daily Mirror
, 10 Apr 1951.

3.
The New Yorker
, 28 Apr 1951;
The Macmillan Diaries: The Cabinet Years,
1950
–
57 (2003), pp 62–3; Philip M. Williams,
Hugh Gaitskell
(1979), pp 255–6; Langford, 10 Apr 1951; John Campbell,
Nye Bevan
(1997), p 238; Tony Benn,
Years of Hope
(1994), pp 147–8.

4. V. S. Naipaul,
Letters Between a Father and Son
(1999), p 85;
Barrow News
, 14 Apr 1951; M-O A, D 5353, 12 Apr 1951.

5.
Yorkshire Evening Post
, 13 Apr 1951; BBC WA,
Any Questions?
, 13 Apr 1951; Langford, 14 Apr 1951; Alan Bullock,
Ernest Bevin: Foreign Secretary,
1945
–
1951 (Oxford, 1983), p 835;
Daily Express
, 16 Apr 1951.

6.
Macmillan Diaries
, p 64; M-O A, D 5353, 16 Apr 1951;
Daily Mirror
, 17 Apr 1951;
Daily Express
, 17/18 Apr 1951.

7.
Govan Press
, 20 Apr 1951;
Daily Mirror
, 18 Apr 1951; Jack Dash,
Good Morning,
Brothers!
(1969), pp 86–7. In general on the case of ‘the Seven’, see: Jim Phillips, ‘The Postwar Political Consensus and Industrial Unrest in the Docks, 1945–55’,
Twentieth Century British History
, 6/3 (1995), pp 309–10; Nina Fishman, ‘“A Vital Element in British Industrial Relations”’,
Historical Studies in Industrial Relations
(Autumn 1999), pp 70–71.

8. Langford, 18 Apr 1951; Haines, 19 Apr 1951;
News of the World
, 22 Apr 1951; Dilwyn Porter, ‘Amateur Football in Britain, 1948–63: The Pegasus Phenomenon’, in Adrian Smith and Dilwyn Porter (eds),
Amateurs and Professionals in Post-War
British Sport
(2000), pp 1–30;
The Times
, 23 Apr 1951; Langford, 21 Apr 1951.

9. Kenneth Harris,
Attlee
(1982), pp 477, 480;
Macmillan Diaries
, p 66; Campbell,
Nye Bevan
, pp 244–5;
The New Yorker
, 19 May 1951.

10
. Ben Pimlott,
Harold Wilson
(1992), pp 162, 168; Streat, p 579; Brian Brivati,
Hugh
Gaitskell
(1996), p 117; Campbell,
Nye Bevan
, p 250; Gaitskell, p 257.

11
.
Daily Express
, 24 Apr 1951; Preston, 24 Apr 1951;
Leeds Guardian
, 27 Apr 1951.

12
.
The Times
, 28/30 Apr 1951;
Newcastle Journal
, 30 Apr 1951; Mike Kirkup (ed),
Charlie Crowe’s Newcastle United Scrapbook
(Seaham, 2001), pp 35, 37;
The Times
, 30 Apr 1951.

Afterword

1.
Woman
, 5 May 1951.

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