Skelmersdale – A New Town in the Making
Part One: From Fantasy to first brick
Skelmersdale was the first new town in the second wave of new towns built in the 1970s.This book details the history of the town before it was chosen to become a new town, the reasons for this and the events that led up to the first bricks being laid in 1964. Learn the history of the British new towns policy, starting from the utopian visions from the 15th century on to the socialist ideals of the garden citites to the post war idealism of a brave new world for the city centres and the working classes. Available on Amazon.