In 1933, Neville Chamberlain opened Birmingham’s 40,000th post-war council dwelling at 30, Hopstone Road on the Weoley Castle Estate.
Chamberlain acknowledged the cost of this ambitious building programme but he asserted: (1)
I do not think there is a ratepayer who will grudge that burden, or will be otherwise than glad to have made that contribution to enable his fellow citizens to live the lives of human beings and not of wild beasts.
These are not perhaps the values of the contemporary Conservative Party.
Castle Road ©Weoley Castle Library
The overwhelming majority of these new homes were built in Birmingham’s new cottage suburbs. In the first flush of post-war idealism under the 1919 Housing Act, these homes were both expansive and expensive. After housing subsidies were slashed in 1921, the majority of later homes would be smaller and non-parlour – on the Weoley Castle Estate only a little over ten per cent…
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