A trip to Francis Crittall's industrial model village of Silver End. The homes at Silver End were one of the first examples of 'modernist' architecture in Britain. Silver End was originally a small hamlet for farmers, which Crittall extended in the late 1920s, to house the workers of his new factory. The village served as an advertisement for Crittall Windows. The garden-suburb-influenced layout of Silver End was designed by C Murray Hennell [who previously worked on Welwyn]. The houses were designed by different architects in a variety of styles, although best known for the houses designed by Thomas S Tait, and Frederick MacManus, including two terraces for workers, and a number of more ambitious detached houses. [Charles Holland, Radical Essex, 2018].
