When was bedford park built

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The former provided designs for two houses, one detached and one semi detached, while the latter drew up one semi-detached design. As was to be his way with all his architects, Carr bought the designs outright, and retained control over where and how they were built with limited further input from the original creator. However, when these first house designs were published in the architectural press they attracted severe criticism for perceived defects in their internal planning.

Carr was not going to live with adverse publicity, which he could ill afford so early in his enterprise. Carr was so delighted with them and with the reception they received in the press , he commissioned a further range of different designs.

It was these, which established the architectural character of Bedford Park that we recognise today, and which were so influential by their sheer novelty. Shaw presented a drawing by Maurice B Adams of imaginary streetscapes featuring his different designs, with the boundary fences, piers and other peripheral features that are now so familiar to us. The images he produced then are a remarkably accurate prediction of what was eventually built.

Adams, both an architect and editor of the influential Building News, lived in Bedford Park for many years. He was a fervent promoter of the estate and probably the man who first suggested that Bedford Park was the earliest garden suburb. Despite setting the style of Bedford Park, Shaw had no role in planning the estate, in deciding which houses should be built where or, indeed, in the supervision of construction.

Rather than the process, what was important was the result, which boils down to the elusive concept of character. The essential ingredients were the ad hoc nature of the planning, which successfully copied the organic growth of a village, the retention of mature trees, and the architecture itself, using materials that gave the place an established look in a short period of time.

By the early s the heart of Bedford Park was complete, but Carr had steadily acquired more land, and was still building.