As the Trading Estate got bigger and bigger during the 1920s people were attracted from all over the country to come and find work in Slough. However, the fast increase in population resulted in a shortage of housing for people to live in.

One of the first housing estates built in Slough to solve this problem was very unusual indeed. It was called Timbertown and was built in the Farnham Road area (where Herschel Grammar School stands today).

Timbertown was an estate of wooden single storey houses. From the outside they looked like an army barracks, but inside they were spacious and comfortable - with 3 bedrooms, a bathroom, a big kitchen and a living room. At the start Timbertown was well cared for and people really enjoyed living there. It was it's own little community with a shop, social hut and even a Sunday school. But as time moved on the buildings got old and started to deteriorate. The wooden houses had never been intended to be permanent and Timbertown was finally demolished in the 1930s to make way for new buildings.

Did you know??
Timbertown began as temporary housing for workers at
‘The Dump’. Some of the huts had been used to house
prisoners in WWI

Close up photographs of our Timbertown model

Running clockwise and starting top left;
The Bedroom Dressing table, The Washroom, The Living Room and finally the Kitchen Dinning Table.

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