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Takes its name from the long-established and upmarket London estate agents, auctioneers and land agents Daniel Smith and Son, and Oakley which began selling building plots on Creffield Road in 1882. The firm was established as Daniel Smith and Son sometime before 1800. Sir Christopher Oakley was a founder member of the Surveyor’s Institution and later its president. According to Dr Joanthan Oakes, borough archivist and local history librarian, the road itself was built by William Daley and Company, a firm of local builders, which began work in 1910 and again after the First World War between 1920 and 1924.
