The original Garden City Estate Office building is at the junction of Broadway and Station Place. The earlier offices of 1904 were a single storey building looking like a large  bungalow located in what was no more than a field . Three oak trees about 300  yards away marked the proposed position of the Central Square. This was the office where visitors could obtain all the information they needed about land and houses, and begin negotiation for a site. This was hidden by this later building , built in front of the original. Designed  by Parker and Unwin and built in 1913/4, with the facade reflecting a change  of style away from Art and Crafts towards Georgian revival. The cupola on the roof is above the doorway of that period.   Click picture to enlarge   It has been in use by the Heritage Foundation until November 9th 1998 when they moved to suite 401 in the  newly refurbished Spirella Building. The interior has now been redeveloped into luxury appartments The next building in Station Place is National Westminster Bank 1926, for which Parker was consulting architect. Click Picture to enlarge Next to this is "The Colonnade"  1909 by Howard Goadby, Marrian and Edgar Simmons is in the earlier Arts and Crafts style. This has recently been renovated into the Hogs Head which visually is a vast improvement over the electricity board shop that was there a few years ago. Click picture to enlarge This shows the way the three building stand in relation to each other viewed from Bridge Road Click picture to enlarge

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