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The Council control the following open spaces:—
Southall Park 26 acres.
Recreation Ground 18 acres.
Manor House Grounds (about) 2 acres.
Norwood Green 7.25 acres.
Frogmore Green 35 acres.
Wolf Green.18 acres.
Land rear of Wolf Inn 83 acres.
In addition the following sites have been purchased and will shortly
be laid out as playing fields and open spaces:—
Spikes Bridge Field 20 acres.
Allenbv Road and Allendale Avenue, open
space 12.25 acres.
Adrienne Avenue, open space 4.6 acres.
This information is by the courtesy of J. B. Thomson, Esq., the Engineer
and Surveyor.
For general administrative purposes the district is divided into East
and West Wards by a line running from the junction of Kings Avenue and
Allenby Road, down the centres of Allen by and North Roads, High Street,
South Road, the Green, Western Road, to a point east of the Grand Junction
Arms, Western Road, adjacent to the North Hyde Bridge.
For the statistical purposes of this report, the district is divided into
North and South sides, these sides being the districts north and south of the
main Great Western Railway line.
The majority of the houses in the district are occupied by good-class
working people, chiefly engaged in the local factories and workshops. These
include food, jam and chemical works, engineering, hosiery, paint, dye and wood
works, laundries, etc. There are no trades carried on which are at present
scheduled as offensive trades.
It is impossible to give a correct estimate of the amount of unemployment
in the district as for unemployment purposes the district is part
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