Building The City

[Silent Hunter]

I would suggest a couple of working class estates in the suburbs. The city probably would have been bombed during the war and these would have been built to house people who were bombed out.

We have these in London.

[Silent Hunter]

I'll take XX, please.

[Silent Hunter]

XX: Willow Tree

Once the grounds of a rather wealthy abbey (before it was demolished in a religious upheaval), the 1930s saw Willow Tree become the scene of a large council estate.

This estate, consisting of rather uniform terraced houses with individual gardens, small parades of shops every so often and a fair number of allotments, is basically an area that took a lot of emigrants from St. Jude's and other such areas before and after the war. Much of its population commute into the centre of the city on a daily basis as local leisure facilities are somewhat spartan- the local swimming pool, the Willow Tree Pool, is an outdoor pool not considered for the faint-hearted in winter. The libraries are good though.

A small local tram network, originally used in the building of the estate, is still in operation, although is in dire need of an upgrade.



Areas: Willow Tree, Marringtree, Four Princes, Oldbridge, Sutton Hill, Deepchurch and Pine Tree.