Place    From 1907 

Hampstead Garden Suburb

Categories: Architecture, Property

Henrietta Barnett formed a board of trustees to build this urban utopia following strict social principles: all classes accommodated, places of education provided, places for the handicapped and elderly, gardens with hedges, not walls, noise limited, shops etc. kept to the boundary and sales of alcohol prohibited. She chose Raymond Unwin to plan the estate and Edwin Lutyens as consulting architect.
On the picture source website the map is interactive, but visit external site for everything you need about the suburb. It is here we learn that "Lutyens' sketch for the landscaping was, as Dame Henrietta recalls, dashed off in a letter from Marseilles when he was en route for Delhi. At the western end of the Avenue is Lutyens' memorial to the Dame herself, a kind of classical wellhead." It is rumoured that Lutyens found Dame Henrietta a difficult client, and that he saw the Delhi commission as an escape from HGS. But perhaps he enjoyed designing her memorial.

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This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Hampstead Garden Suburb

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First house tree

October 2nd 1907. This tree was planted by Mrs Barnett on the occasion of th...

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First two houses on HGS

On 2 May 1907 Henrietta Barnett cut the first sod here. The ceremony involved...

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Hampstead Garden Suburb Jubilee

This stone was unveiled by Her Royal Highness, the Princess Margaret on 2nd J...

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Henrietta Barnett monument

Unveiled 17 July 1937.

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Henrietta Barnett plaque

Prior to the death of her husband in 1913, Dame Henrietta Barnett had been li...

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Leonard and Freda Darke

Leonard and Freda Darke

At Arts and Humanities Research Council we found a brief biography of Leonard (1914-2004) which includes: "In 1951 he and his family moved to Bedford Park, Chiswick (the first garden suburb) where ...

Group, Architecture, Community / Clubs

1 memorial
Whinney, Son and Austen Hall

Whinney, Son and Austen Hall

Architects active at least 1929 - 1977. 30 Cannon Street being their modernist masterpiece.

Group, Architecture

2 memorials
Holman & Goodrham

Holman & Goodrham

Architects active in 1912.  George Edward Holman (1862-1921/2) and Henry Robert Goodrham (1863-1937).  More about them at Lea Bridge Heritage.   We believe we have "Goodrham" correctly spelt but o...

Group, Architecture

1 memorial
John Dando Sedding

John Dando Sedding

Architect.  Born Eton. Specialised in churches and worked in an Arts and Crafts style of Gothic.  His major work is Holy Trinity, Sloane Square but this dedicated website lists 6 other churches in ...

Person, Architecture

1 memorial
Manning & Simpson

Manning & Simpson

Architects active in 1885.

Group, Architecture

1 memorial