1902-03 1907 1919 1923 1950 Opening of the Folk Hall, to meet the social 1899 Parker and Unwin are engaged by Government-subsidised housing at the The national Town Planning needs of the community at the heart of the 1965 1987 Joseph Rowntree to create a model start of the ‘Homes for Heroes’ scheme Institute Conference is held New building begins around village. 1912 Foundation of the Garden village in New Earswick. and the inter-war development. in . White Rose Avenue, and also 1954 Closure of Earswick A shared ownership Cities Association. a modernisation programme — New Earswick Primary railway station, on the scheme is built at — Joseph Rowntree is known to have voiced Ebenezer Howard, author School opens, one of for individual houses. Death of Seebohm York to Beverley line. Woodlands Place. his disappointment in the post-war housing of Garden Cities of Tomorrow, Initial plans are laid out, using A Village Council is set up. the first ‘open air’ schools Rowntree. in the village, owing to tighter costs and The village now has nearly 500 The pub (on the Huntington — was one of the forces behind Road as the backbone of in the country. Joseph insists on a measure of self-government and regulated subsidies. three-bedroomed houses as well Although his father was side of the railway – there the Garden Cities Movement. the village and the curving river A doctors’ surgery co-operative decision making – visionary for its time. Joseph Rowntree proudly as 40 larger houses, and 90 the original instigator of is still no pub in the village!) Foss defining its eastern boundary. — is built. promised that ‘the education smaller-sized cottages. the village, much of the was formerly known as the The housing density was 12 houses to of the girls, though not Barry Parker is appointed principal execution of the plans Flag and Whistle. 1968 1982 an acre, well below the average of 40 at identical in character with, architect of New Earswick, while 1926 1936-46 had fallen to Seebohm 2002 the time – and still below the national shall be as liberal as that of Raymond Unwin becomes more Rowntree. The Joseph Rowntree The Trust wins a High average today in Britain. the boys.’ involved in public sector work Methodist Chapel built, No new Housing Trust is created Court case determining A Housing Conference nationally. with Trust funding. building in as a legally separate that leasehold schemes is held to celebrate New — 1915 this period. housing association. for the elderly are a form 1990 Earswick’s centenary, — The first houses are built and 1942-62 of ‘charitable’ housing. chaired by HRH The Duke PM Lloyd George summonses The JRHT also has housing JRMT changes occupied, on Western Terrace, 1926-36 of Edinburgh. to investigate Lois de Soissons, architect schemes elsewhere in York its name to the Poplar Grove and Station Avenue. the dimensions and priorities of Joseph Rowntree Clifton Lodge Estate of , and across the North of 2019 national post-war housing. Foundation (JRF) is built, on the former is appointed consultant . and moves to The land owned by Joseph architect to the Trust. Opening of — Homestead, the Rowntree and using New Lodge former home of ideas from New The Folk Hall is extended development. Seebohm Rowntree. Earswick. and modernised.

1901 1904 1918 1920 1988 2010 1998 Seebohm Rowntree attends the Joseph Rowntree puts a large part of his New Earswick’s housing designs The first bungalows start 1967 Rowntree shares are Joseph Rowntree conference of the Garden Cities wealth into various trusts, one of which are included as prototypes in the to be built, in cul-de-sacs 1979-80 sold when Nestlé takes Hartrigg Oaks Secondary School 1910 retirement village, Association at Bourneville, the model was the Joseph Rowntree Village Trust, Government Housing Manual. off a main feeder road. 1925 New Earswick over the company. is rebuilt. village of the Cadbury company started intended to manage the New Earswick 1962 Swimming Pool Thirty three dwellings This brings increased is built on the north Ivy Place, around a green, New Earswick is the in 1895. There he meets the architects estate. Council-built estates such as Tang The cul-de-sac is a noted 1935 is opened. are built on Willow Bank income to the Trusts. edge of the village. creates a courtyard effect. first community in Death of Joseph Circular block ‘Swedish Barry Parker and Raymond Unwin. Hall were similar in design, and many characteristic of the Parker as community leasehold which the housing Rowntree. The Folk Hall ‘The object shall be the improvement of the ideas were adopted in new and Unwin planning concept. 1941 flats’ is built, that properties, but they — Seebohm Rowntree wrote Poverty: a Study of of the condition of the working classes The architects incorporated layouts and designs estates nationally. is extended. includes double glazed The Joseph have to be sold on Juniper Close, a mixed Town Life, a groundbreaking work showing … not only artisans and mechanics but features that had worked well of the Garden Cities windows and electric Rowntree 1952 99-year leases as they tenure development, that 27% of the population in York lived also shop assistants and clerks, and in the past, such as a village Movement were underfloor heating. Today just over 200 of the early homes are listed Secondary are not deemed to be is built. below the poverty line. New Earswick village all persons who earn their living … by green and inviting views tried out. Other C.W.C. Needham and the Joseph Rowntree Housing Trust still holds School opens. ‘charitable’ housing. is partly a response to this study. the work of their hands or their minds.’ through the arches between early examples were is appointed The Friends Meeting the freehold of the greater part of all the properties Joseph Rowntree the rows of houses. , Welwyn, consultant The village by now has some House opens, for — in the village and acts as landlord to the residents and Hampstead architect to 800 houses and a population Quaker worship. and supports the village with community and — Joseph Rowntree buys 150 acres close Garden . the Trust. of about 2,300. educational activities. to land already owned by Rowntree & A new phase of building starts, with Joseph Rowntree The integrity of the original design and concept are Co Ltd where the factory is located on Hawthorne Terrace and Chestnut Grove. determined to try a Haxby Road. 1948 still clearly apparent. They regularly bring students combined experiment 1984 of architecture from across the world to visit New in social engineering, The Nature Reserve Earswick. housing and planning. is created on the A hostel for people with site of the old learning difficulties is The smell of chocolate from the Nestlé factory a village brickworks. opened at Dormary mile or so towards the south is a pleasant reminder Court in partnership of why the village exists in the first place – a with MENCAP. reminder that ‘from chocolate comes change’. “New Earswick is an example, and one of the earliest, of what can be done modestly and effectively to meet the demand for higher standards of life.”

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