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The Council control the following open spaces :—
Southall Park 26 acres
Recreation Ground 18 acres
Manor House Grounds 2 acres
Norwood Green 7.25 acres
Frogmore Green 35 acre
Wolf Green 18 acre
Wolf Field 83 acre
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
Jubilee Park 11.13 acres
Durdans Park 4.6 acres
Viaduct Field 4.22 acres
The purchase of further sites for open spaces is proceeding.
I am indebted to Mr. J. B. Thomson, the Engineer and Surveyor, for
the above information.
For general administrative purposes the district is at present divided
into East and West Wards by a line running from the junction of Kings Avenue
and Allenby Road, down the centres of Allenby 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 main statistical purposes of this report, the district is divided
into North and South sides, these sides being the districts north and south of
the 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.
Unemployment.
It is impossible to give an exact estimate of the amount of unemployment
in the district as for unemployment purposes the district is part of a slightly
larger area of Middlesex, and the figures are not kept distinct. The following
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