The stonelaying ceremony - on the edge of a field from which the hay had only just been cut - was followed by rapid progress. The present No.13 Wavertree Nook Road was completed and occupied in December 1910, and shortly afterwards the other houses nearby were also occupied. It is difficult to imagine the feelings of the first residents, moving to such an isolated place, and into houses quite different from any built in Liverpool before; with gardens front and back, yet available at rents (from just under 6 shillings a week) similar to those being charged by the landlords of conventional terraces.

Inevitably, the residents of Garden Suburb housing were not a typical cross-section of 'ordinary people'. In addition to the rent, payment toward the purchase of shares in the company had to be made; and a fairly hefty down-payment was required when the tenants first moved in. Garden suburbs were not the solution to the slum problem, but the argument was that they would release housing accommodation in the areas from which the tenants came.

According to Gore's Liverpool Directory for 1913, the first 118 houses in Wavertree Garden Suburb had attracted 16 clerks, 10 printing workers, 7 schoolteachers, 5 commercial travellers, 4 joiners, 4 managers and a wide variety of other occupations including an analytical chemist, a musician, a shipwright and a tramdriver. They included some interesting characters, pen-pictures of whom were published in the residents' magazine 'The Thingwallian'. For example at No.15 Wavertree Nook Road - then named 'Paxhaven' - lived Mr Albert Mann, the local secretary of the National Anti-Gambling League, and a supporter of the Peace Society (though in everyday life a Post Office telegraphist). Clearly, some of the early tenants were attracted by the political ideals of the Suburb's founders; though others complained (again through the columns of 'The Thingwallian') about the 'compulsory Communism' which used part of their rent payments to pay for recreational and other social facilities.

The housing layout on the east side of Wavertree Nook Road - the second phase of the Suburb's development - was the work of Co-partnership Tenants Ltd's architect, George Lister Sutcliffe. Todmorden-born Sutcliffe had been responsible for many of the house designs within Unwin's initial phase, as well as houses in Ealing, Letchworth and Hampstead Garden Suburb. He was clearly a very imaginative architect/planner, but was to die young - aged 51 - in 1915. Fieldway Green was the centrepiece of Sutcliffe's portion of the Garden Suburb. The houses form a quadrangle facing on to the green, creating the sense of community which was the constant aim of Garden City and Garden Suburb designers.

The houses in Fieldway were built in 1913, and Fieldway Green - which Sutcliffe had originally envisaged as the site of tennis courts - was the scene of Rose Queen Festivals for many years afterwards. In July 1914 - on the day of the Institute stonelaying - it was the venue for a Pageant depicting English village life through the ages. As the Liverpool Daily Post reported: "In the last scene of all the lesson of the display was given. Life in a monotonous street of the ordinary suburban type was shown in contrast with the life of a garden suburb". The latter was, no doubt, acted out by the most rosy-cheeked of the local children!