Garden city movement through low taxes, low rents and more space. Despite Howard’s best efforts, the home prices in this garden city could not remain affordable for blue-collar workers to live in. The populations comprised mostly skilled middle class workers. After a decade, the First Garden City became profitable and started paying dividends to its investors. Although many viewed Letchworth as a success, it did not immediately inspire government investment into the next line of garden cities. In reference to the lack of government support for garden cities, Frederic James Osborn, a colleague of Howard and his eventual successor at the Garden City
It Was Mighty This CD features recordings made between 1957 and 2001. The musicians in the Hibernian Ceili Band are Brendan McGlinchey, Roger Sherlock, Raymond Roland, Liam Farrell, PJ Hines, Brian Green It Was Mighty "It Was Mighty!" The Early Days of Irish Music in London (TSCD679T) is the first album in the fourth series of "The Voice of the People" from Topic Records and comprises three CDs. The selections are taken from Topic Records back catalogue, the Peter Kennedy archive in the British Library and many private collections. Topic records have issued compilations in the series "The Voice of the People" since