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William Horace Cowley Curtis was the site manager, contractor and agent for the Emerson Park estate building site. The area started being developed following the purchase of the southern part of the manor of Nelmes, comprising 200 acres, and some adjoining land by William Carter, of Parkstone, Dorset, in 1895. It came a decade after the arrival of the railway which brought the area within 30 minutes reach of the London. Despite this slow start by around 1905, Carter’s company, by then called Homesteads Ltd., had built over 200 houses in this and adjoining roads. Emerson Park was planned as an exclusive garden suburb, with many plots of an acre or more. The original prices ranged from £300 to £1,000. Carter, a large developer in several counties, named Emerson Park and its roads from his personal associations.
