It began to be developed in the mid nineteenth century but at that time did not extend much further north than what is now Milson Road.
By the end of the century the whole area was developed, mainly with two-up two-down late-Victorian houses.
[2] At the north end is the Parish Church of St Matthew on the corner with Sinclair Road.
Nikolaus Pevsner writes that The St Mary's Roman Catholic Primary, designed by P.J.
[4] Opposite is Springvale Terrace, designed by Renton Howard Wood Associates 1967–70, which Pevsner writes was one of the local authority's "early attempts at an alternative urban recipe for high-rise flats", and obtrusive because of its dark brickwork.