Housing development to 1938 - Norton and Meadowhead

The OS map (Derbyshire XIISW) revised in 1938 has blue/white numbered areas to highlight building developments over the 1924 - 1938 period as follows:

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1. Housing development following the demolition of farm buildings on the former Birch Farm – along Birch Farm Avenue and the western side of Little Norton Lane.

2. Housing development following the demolition of farm buildings on the former Park Farm (2) on Charles Ashmore Road and the North-side of Little Norton Lane.

3. The Norton House estate - '41 acres,3 roods and 12 perches’ was sold on 12th December 1927 by Bernard Alexander Firth to Michael Joseph Gleeson. House building started on Cloonmore Drive and proceeded to Cloonmore Croft.

4. Further housing on the Norton House estate continued to Henley Avenue, and The Meads.

5. Houses were built on the east-side of Little Norton Lane to the south of the Farm Cottages and  also on land previously owned by the Norton Hall Estate – by builders including Wright and Walton on Norton Park Road, View and Avenue.

6. More roads had been laid out for further housing on Norton Park Drive and Crescent.

Houses were built on the east-side of Little Norton Lane to the south of the Farm Cottages..

7. Houses along Norton Lane from 4-Lane Ends at Grennel Moor to Little Norton Lane and further NE along Norton Lane until it bends to the North, then on both sides to junction with Norton Park View.

8. Houses on Hunstone Avenue, running from Little Norton Lane to  Meadowhead.

9. Shops to west side of Meadowhead and houses along Robert Road – on footprint of old German PoW camp., built around 1926.

The Haig Memorial Homes at Ogden Place were built for severely wounded servicemen and their families in 1929 on Meadowhead, to the west of Painted Fabrics on Little Norton Lane

10. Houses along Greenhill Avenue and Greenhill Main Road.

11. A small estate "The Transport Estate"was built by Sheffield Corporation in Greenhill between 1926 and 1932 around The Greenway, Annesley Road, Humphrey Road and Greenhill Avenue, In total there were 256 2- and 3-bedroomed houses built here.

12. By 1938 housing now extended all the way to Meadowhead from the Quarry and Brick Works on the west side of the road, and from Charles Ashmore Road on the east side of the road.

13. Graves Trust Houses were built on the site of the Pig Farm, Little Norton Green and the Orchardin 1938.

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