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3 - Doxey in 1923 - A growing community
The first decade of the 20th Century saw a major change in Doxey. The 'centre of gravity' moved eastwards from the small agricultural hamlet to a ribbon development stretching from Daisy Bank to the flat area near the railway bridge.
Nearly all the
houses on this section of Doxey (Road) were built during this period, the
majority are closely built, good-sized semi-detached or terraced houses with
large rear gardens. A small side road – The Crescent had been started with a row
of smaller terraced houses.
To go with this residential development a small prefabricated St Andrews Church Note 1 was built (in 1914 at a cost of £127 10s 10d) and a Post Office established in what is now the Doxey Arms. The house that is now the Three Tuns public house was, in 1923, the westernmost outpost of the new Doxey. The Doxey Institute in the The Crescent was established as a reading room and to generally promote self-improvement. The Universal Grinding Wheel Company was now operating from the Doxey works and many of the employees lived locally. The extraction of sand and gravel from 'Redfern's land' between the new houses and the main railway line was quite extensive.
Doxey – looking west from near the Doxey ArmsNote 2. (c 1910?) a- 102/103 Doxey, b- (now) Three Tuns, c- Daisy Bank. House 'd' has been replaced with a pair of semi-detatched houses. House 'e' still there. All (?) houses on right hand side still there.
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