This roundabout was originally designed as one of the central hubs of the Parson Cross municipal housing estates. The centrepiece of this district (originally named Toad Hole after the farmstead which previously occupied this location) now known as Southey Green, was the 'Ritz Picture House' a large detached brick built cinema in austere early modernist style. This building was converted in the early 1960s into a social club and bingo hall and was sold in 2003 with outline planning consent for demolition and construction of residential units. Scurfield's reconstruction of the 1637 Harrison Survey illustrates Toad Hole as a common green extending to the west of this site. Partial legibility of former suburban core and cinema.