This area of grid iron terraced housing was developed as regular blocks of land sold off from the fields around Page Hall Farm (shown on the first edition OS within a landscape of piecemeal enclosure). The earliest streets built were Skinnerthorpe, Bagley and Page Hall Road, all of which are shown on the 1891 OS. By 1905 the area was joined to the main tramway network along Barnsley Road (leading into Central Sheffield) and Page Hall Road leading down to the main Don Valley line along Attercliffe Road, Attercliffe Common. This connection no doubt stimulated the growth of housing for industrial workers in this area as by the 1920s survey urbanisation is well under way and near complete to its present form by 1935. The area has little legibility of its pre-urban form but is a very good example of bylaw terraced housing with a surrounding context (in adjacent polygon areas) of contemporary high street shopping parades as well as chapels, cinemas and (until recently) Victorian / Edwardian school buildings.