1930s front path

[LittlePickleHead]

We have a 1930s house - standard round bay window with painted pebbledash. We're having the front door and side windows replaced with beautiful art deco style stained glass (roughly in keeping with what would have been there originally).
We really want to do up the front garden now that we're improving the exterior, and I would love a tiled path, but I think this is probably not the right kind of path for the era as my searches only throw up victorian tiling?
Can anyone shed any light on what a traditional 1930s front path would have been like? Some of the houses I can see have quarry stile tiling in the front porch, but none of them seem to have the original path, and google isn't helping me at all!
Is there any kind of tiled path that won't look completely out of place with the 1930s exterior?

I don't know but maybe either gravel or something like this?

upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5b/Metro-Land_%281921%29.png/250px-Metro-Land_%281921%29.png

I think we may have the original front path. It’s ugly concrete!

Our road was built in 1930s and has a real mix of styles of front paths/gardens/drives, I don’t really know what’s original, but probably concrete? I’d just walk around your area nosying at other houses and see what you like.

Some of the 20’s houses in my area have original quarry tiles outside although I’ve only seen them on porches and not paths. They’re either all red or red and black in a very simple design. A brick path with nice planting could look pretty too.

Our 1920 house and my friend’s 1937 house both have ‘crazy paving’ style paths at the front and terraces in the back. It’s not 60s crazy paving though, it’s randomly sized and shaped York stone. There is quite a lot of it around here on houses this age so I’m inclined to think it might be original

And our rear/tradesmans entrance has red quarry tiles inside and out. But these are really slippery in the wet.

Can I ask where did you get your stained glass?

Ours is actually very similar to the picture @Sometimesonly posted

And ours is yorkstone paving.

I live in an area full of 30s houses. One of them still has an original drive. It's grey and red concrete in a starburst. It must have looked amazing new!

We have our original path/driveway and it’s massive concrete slabs that match the path on the street, I hate them! Our house was built in 1937.

My 30s house also has concrete slabs. I’m not sure if they are original but most of the neighbours have the same thing so I think they must be. I would probably go for resin if I changed it, as it looks smart and though it’s not original I don’t think it would look out of place.

Thanks for all the input. There are some houses on the road with crazy paving and for some reason it didn’t occur to me that it was the original, but it seems the most likely.

Not mad keen on crazy paving (although the yorkstone does look nice) or concrete so will have to have a think about whether we just go for what we want despite it being the wrong era!

@GiraffeNecked the stained glass was sourced by the wooden window company that has replaced our windows/doors. They are in SE London/Kent, happy to pass on details if that’s helpful!

Hijack: Does your window company save original leaded lights? I need to replace all the windows in my house but don't want to lose them.

I think a version of crazy paving - like stones (my nan lived in one from new) like that metro picture some were just concrete as well looking round the area - the main focus was the front gate and the door..which matched/reflected her street was mainly a sort of sunburst wooden,, painted in green/red/yellow/black same colour as the door!

Porch was quarry tile

Quarry tile step and concrete with random stones in for the path

Yes, hijacking thread, but as PP did they encapsulate the stained glass?

Hmm I'm not sure about saving the leaded lights, but I can't see why they wouldn't be able to do that? We have kept the original curved frames around our door and they are fitting the stained glass side windows into it, so I assume the same would apply in reverse as long as they were careful about removing them.

The stained glass is double glazed, front panel is the leaded stained glass, back panel is obscure glass (minster style) . I was very keen to have the relief of the glass showing at the front, rather than being encapsulated (I think the reflection on the front pane means you lose some of the effect personally)

www.alamy.com/stock-photo/1930s-uk-houses-magazine-advert.html

These 1930s adverts for new houses mostly look like they have concrete paths - so maybe true to the period isn't the prettiest option to choose!

I love looking at those old adverts @rbe78!

Dammit. I suspect encapsulation is pretty much the only viable option for the original ones. I think mine is the only house in the street that still has them.

Would be such a shame to lose them SoupDragon. Worth a conversation?

Ours is crazy paving but not like the 1960s stuff its stone

Gravel is attractive but not very practical imo

Oh, I will live with the draughty windows rather than lose them! I wanted to cry when next door had them ripped out (I gave them away on Freecycle for them and kept one as a spare 😂)

Thankfully it's just the 3 front bays - the rest can be standard double glazing :)

I have been having this exact same problem! We have a yellow and red brick path currently which I hate. So many bloody weeds! I have been traipsing the streets near me looking for inspiration and the houses are either the same as ours or crazy paving. There is actually so much crazy paving that it makes sense that it is original, but I am not putting crazy paving down in 2020 😂
What did you decide to do in the end? I am thinking maybe some larger slate tiles? Unfortunately we have a bit of a slope so I’m not sure how well that would work so need to get someone in to take a look. I’d be interested to know what you decide!