Jones Houses, Selwyn Crescent, Welling, 2002

Jones Houses, Selwyn Crescent, Welling, 2002

Not all the houses on the Danson Estate were intended for the well to do middle-class commuters.

Those with more modest means could buy homes built by firms such as T. H. Jones with the aid of a government subsidy.

The plain exteriors were individualised by the use of different coloured tiles and rendering.

The original plans did not include a garage, but this omission was corrected in the course of the 1930s and 1940s by the upwardly mobile owners.

Photograph: Oliver Wooller.