House numbers 12, 14, 16, 18 built 1904/5; no: 20 built 1955

This land belonged to Dicksons Nurseries and it appears that by the early 1900s the Park was sufficiently established and successful that a building developer managed to buy a plot of land - some 1440sq yds - and build these two pairs of semis in 1904/5 immediately adjacent to the boundary of the covenanted area of Upton Park. As built they each had a 360 sq yd plot and featured the hard red engineering brick - Ruabon Reds - which is not featured in most of the Park predating this period.

in the 1908 OS survey.........by the 1932 OS survey

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Post WW1 Dicksons must have sold valuable building land along the roadside of Mill Lane and the Upton Park arm to the mill. Probably while selling the land for house numbers 2 - 10; these semis were able to acquire more land to their rear. Willowdene (no:12) extended theirs out in line with their boundary but Laverstock (no:14) acquired the land stretching back behind themselves and the other two (nos:16 & 18) giving them 1460 sq yds prior to the Park accounts ledger of 1921.
Also, prior to the 1932 OS survey Laverstock had managed to acquire some of covenanted plot 15 to enable a drive and garage.

Now with a sizeable plot to their rear and an access drive it was only a matter of time before this was developed. That occured post WW2 in the early 1950s when The owner of Laverstock living in Bulawayo Rhodesia built a new bungalow in the grounds returing Laverstock to its original 360sq yd plot.

For much of the first 50 years or so these four semis were owned by various absent landlords letting them; in several cases; to tenants who stayed for many years. In the 1920s it appears that Miss Clarke and Mr Woodward swapped ownership of nos:16 & 18.

see Willowdene no:12

see Laverstock no:14

see Fairfield no:16

see Ranmere no:18

see Bulawayo no:20