Greenside , Blisworth, Northamptonshire, UK.

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45-01   Spring 1958, the Acme Building Company began work on a portion of the old Stoke Road allotment field.  This view is from the Stoke Road.

An aerial view of some of Greenside is included in the Aerial Views section.

The name Greenside was chosen from a list; Stoke Park Avenue, Stoneleigh Way, Green Side, Park Way and Everalls Way.  The choice was obvious since the point at which the road joins the Stoke Road is nearly opposite where there was a common-field Green before the Canal was built.

45-02   The plan was to build some 30 bungalows as economical housing and by October 1958 the first houses were occupied.  This view is across the Stoke Road towards Victoria House and the twin cottage that remained after the Westley Buildings were demolished in 1938.

A panorama has recently been taken from a point just beyond those piles of bricks.

There are two notable things about Greenside.

One is that, once settled in, the residents formed a social club in 1977 - see copy below.  No other part of the village had done so before then and they were one of the first to use the new Village Hall.

The other is that the ironstone mining took its toll on the housing of Blisworth for the first time.  Acme had built on ground that had not been allowed to settle for long enough; houses began to show distortion and one or two needed to be rebuilt.  The buck passed back and forth but seemed to rest mostly with the builders for not digging deeply enough to avoid such problems - they were not allowed to build any more houses in the village.  All the houses were eventually cured of all their 'ills'.