The Property Boom
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- Author(s) Marriott, Oliver
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 1967
- Pages 293pp; illus
- Publisher Hamish Hamilton
- Place Published London
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- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Deals with post 1945 to 1960s commercial property industry and the key players in it including Charles Clore, Harry Hyams, Max Rayne, Harry Samuels, etc. Chapters include: 'Outlines of a boom'; 'Between the wars and before'; 'The system'; 'The war and the beginnings, 1945-54'; 'Provincial shops, 1948-55 - blitzed cities and new towns'; 'The City of London'; 'The old estates, the Church and the railways'; 'The Fenston Group - Harry Hyams; and Centre Point'; 'Provincial shops, 1955-61 - Sam Chippindale and Walter Flack'; 'Cotton and Clore and Flack'; 'The Euston Centre - Joe Levy and Robert Clark; 'The evil of congestion'; 'Overseas'; 'Troubles at the Bull Ring and the Elephant & Castle'; 'White elephantiasis'; 'What next?'. Extensive appendices provide statistical material, a list of developers, etc. Deals with developers such as Sir Charles Clore, Jack Cotton, Walter Flack, Joe Levy, Sam Chippindale, Harry Higham, etc