G. Topham Forrest

He then moved to London and worked as an improver for John Macvicar Anderson while taking classes at King's College and attending the Architectural Association studios.

[4] His time at the LCC coincided with most of the great interwar period of construction of council houses and flats: approximately 61,000 units by the outbreak of World War II.

[2] This is seen clearly at the largest LCC housing estate, Becontree, where most of the homes are 2-storey cottages in short terraces and despite varied groupings and one of the first uses of cul-de-sacs, which the planners called 'banjos' after their shape,[7] there is an overall impression of uniformity.

[11][12][13][14] Also, under the influence of the Garden city movement, he had the buildings on LCC estates laid out informally and grouped at road junctions and around small greens.

[16] At the St Helier Estate, he retained trees and hedgerows where possible and had shrubberies and greens planted,[17] and the housing is deliberately varied in appearance.