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English: Melksham Close, Penhill, Swindon This is the northern edge of the large municipal housing estate developed in the 1950s. It may not have existed had it not been for a land acquisition problem on the east side of Swindon where the next housing estate was planned, Walcot. This resulted in an 18 month hiatus and, rather than break up the housebuilding machine that had formed to build houses for the Council, the decision was made to extend Penhill further north than had originally been planned. This took up the slack until work started on Walcot in 1955. Rightly or wrongly 'the valley' as it became known gained a reputation as a sink for 'problem families'. An attempt to remove the stigma was made by the Council by trying to rename the area as 'Lower Penhill'. I don't think it caught on. |
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| Author | Brian Robert Marshall |
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