Article in "The Industrial Archaeology of South East London"

This was emailed to the PRA by local estate agent David Evans and Co.

The entry in the book states:
"E.16 Housing Estate:   Well Hall Road S.E.9 TQ 42 75

By working round the clock the Progress Estate, covering some 96 acres, was completed in only 11 months between February and December 1915. 
The houses were designed by H.M. Office of Works under Sir Frank Barnes.

There are 1300 dwellings of four main types.  By using "found" materials a pleasing variety of styles has been achieved.  The average cost of each dwelling (£620) was some four times that of a typical cottage of the period and no further munitions estates were built in this manner.

The estate, originally built to house the rapidly expanding workforce at The Woolwich Arsenal, was sold in 1925 for £378,000 to Progress Estates Ltd., a subsidiary of the Royal Arsenal Co-operative Society.