68 Housing and Town Planning. Garden Cities 



business men; and these people are able to enjoy life 

 and do their work amid the best surroundings. Right 

 in the centre of the town is the chief open space, 

 Norton Common, which is 70 acres in extent ; and in 

 no case is it far to get to the corn fields and pasture 

 lands that surround Garden City. 



We have not space to name other model industrial 

 villages, and can give only a passing reference to 



Open-air School, Letchworth 



Saltaire in Yorkshire, founded by Sir Titus Salt in 

 1853, and to Port Sunlight in Cheshire, founded in 

 1887 by Sir W. H. Lever, now Lord Leverhulme. In each 

 case these model villages were founded for the housing 

 of the employees of the firms, and they have been a 

 decided success in giving these people suitable homes. 

 In the early years of the twentieth century the 

 attention of Parliament was directed to this question 

 of housing and town planning and as a result an Act 



