Much of this housing was built by the Sheffield Corporation in the 1930s. It differs from much of the municipal housing of its period in the lack of clear geometric design - a result of gradual piecemeal infilling of areas between longer established ribbon developments along main roads. This area of the estate (which continues to the north and west of this polygon, removed former surveyed enclosure - possibly part of the parliamentary act of enclosure for Handsworth, awarded 1808 (English 1985, 63). Initial building of this estate concentrated along main roads [Newlands Grove, Alnwick Road, Foxdale Ave and Hollinsend Road all feature houses with plans typical of 1930s Sheffield Corporation Housing] with later infilling completed between 1945 and 1949. Post war houses have much simpler and more uniform plans. Invisible legibility of pre urban landscape. SMR PRN 873 records a Roman coin (Tacitus) found in a garden along Elstree Road in 1950.