The official site of the Progress Residents' Association (PRA), for the Progress Estate, Eltham, London, SE9.
The Progress Estate was built in 1915 to house the workers from the local Woolwich Arsenal munitions factory, for the First World War.
Monday 29 February 2016
Cutting the First Sod of the New Garden City
Dr. Addison, The Minster of Health (1914), cutting the first sod of the new garden city (The Progress Estate) to be formed in Eltham.
According to his biographer Kenneth Morgan, writing for the on-line Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Asquith made Christopher Addison parliamentary secretary to the Board of Education on 8 August 1914, which post he held until he became under-secretary to Lloyd George's new office at minister of munitions in May, 1915. The construction of the Well Hall Estate (the then name of what is now the Progress Estate) began in February 1915.
To quote Kenneth Morgan, 'in January 1919 Addison became president of the Local Government Board, charged with giving substance to the government's pledges of post-war reform. His immediate task was setting up a new Ministry of Health, and indeed he took over this new office that June'.
In order to resolve the differences between the text below this photograph and Dr Addison's biography, it would be helpful if the provider of this photograph could state its source (e.g. name and date of publication). Keith Billinghurst 5th March 2016.
According to his biographer Kenneth Morgan, writing for the on-line Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Asquith made Christopher Addison parliamentary secretary to the Board of Education on 8 August 1914, which post he held until he became under-secretary to Lloyd George's new office at minister of munitions in May, 1915. The construction of the Well Hall Estate (the then name of what is now the Progress Estate) began in February 1915.
ReplyDeleteTo quote Kenneth Morgan, 'in January 1919 Addison became president of the Local Government Board, charged with giving substance to the government's pledges of post-war reform. His immediate task was setting up a new Ministry of Health, and indeed he took over this new office that June'.
In order to resolve the differences between the text below this photograph and Dr Addison's biography, it would be helpful if the provider of this photograph could state its source (e.g. name and date of publication). Keith Billinghurst 5th March 2016.