When I first called Audrey who runs community groups on the Spittal Cross Estate and Jane who is the Hon. Curator at the Eden Valley Museum, I was immediately excited by news of a reunion between people who once lived on the factory estates - built to house families enticed down from London by companies promising a better way of life in terms of new housing after the war. So in my mind I was visioning estates with sensibilities of Ebenezer Howard's ideology.
Google Spittals Cross Estate, Edenbridge and see what comes up. I grew up in a council house and am a little tired of peoples, in some cases, mis-conceptions of social housing and the type of people that live there.
Ebenezer Howard
Edenbridge definitely shows signs of accommodating a town of workers and their families. Community centres, the Edenbridge centre, primary schools encased in the centre of a picturesque village high street, doctors surgerys, health and leisure centres and the best chips I've had in ages.
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