Larger grid iron terracing on part of the Page Hall Estate split up after the creation of Firth Park in 1875. See HSY 954 and 958 for fuller description of this earlier history. This area developed as a residential area in the earlier years of the twentieth century after the construction of the tramways improved communications between here, town and the Lower Don Valley. Firth Park and the surrounding housing of Fir Vale east provide a particularly good example of an early twentieth century industrial housing area with many of the institutional and commercial buildings as well as the housing intact. Invisible legibility of pre urban landscape.