Semi detached housing first appearing on the 1935 OS 25 inch plan of the area on the remaining portions of the grounds of Page Hall (HSY 958). See HSY 954 and 958 for fuller description of this earlier history of this area which is linked to Page Hall's former owner Mark Firth and his creation of the municipal park to the north. This area first 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 historic type.