Creating Richings Park cont ...

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  Richings Park today ...


North Park 2011

Perfectly harmonious and cement-rendered they have, as a group, their own character - all are different. Caught up in the receivership, it is not known how far they are attributable to Clare.

North Park - North side. The ten houses here were mostly built by a local builder, Farr, on land conveyed to him in October 1927 by Purser of Sutton Farm who had purchased his tenancy from the Meekings Trust in 1922. These are of more standard suburban designs for detached and semis with render and or brick.

Bathurst Walk West. In 1939/41 the builder Warren, of Uxbridge was developing in-fill sites at the far end of Bathurst Walk. The street came to a dead end in the middle of a field. This was Purser's land (Sutton Farm) stretching all the way from North Park to the railway which Warren had bought in 1938. A significant development was planned to utilise a proposed new orbital road from Colnbrook (Brand's Hill) to Iver Heath

(Wood Lane). Post war, the demands of the green belt did not allow this and only the completion of the cul-de-sac was built comprising more standard suburban detached and semidetached houses with render or brick finish. Warren sold the rest of the land to Boyer.

Buckfield Court. This was built in 1938/39 by Tyson Chambers of Slough who also built Slough Town Hall and the now demolished Girls' High School.


North Park 1930

Back lane behind the shops/Bathurst Close. This narrow lane runs at the back of the shops from Syke Ings to Bathurst Walk, being intersected by

Wellesley Avenue. Its original function was presumably to serve as a rear access for the shops in Bathurst Walk but its status regarding access, rights of way and ownership is not known. It is possible that a mistake was made in the drawing up of the various conveyance documents when the company was created and it was simply left off in a clerical error. It has been privately surfaced at various recent times and some drainage installed for the convenience of those accessing it. At times lorries/vans/cars associated with the businesses are parked in the lane causing inconvenience for the other residents. Mr Roberts conveyed the land owned by Mr Norrish of Chiswick to the developer of the 2 blocks of maisonettes 20 to 26A Bathurst Walk (around 1952/3) which were completed in 1959. During this process it was not possible to define any rights relative to access from the lane at the rear beyond "customary rights of access". The garages for the maisonettes were built to access onto

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