[1] Following World War I, there was a national movement to improve working-class housing, and rehouse families living in city centre slums.
In 1927, Gloucester Corporation compulsorily purchased Starveall Farm to build the new homes that became White City.
[2] The estate was formally opened by the Duke of Gloucester, in a tree-planting ceremony held on 14 July 1928.
[4] The street names reference Gloucestershire villages as well as characters from the novels of Charles Dickens who had visited Gloucester docks in the 1850s.
[6] In October 2012, the present Duke of Gloucester was invited back to mark White City’s new standing.