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Nov 16, 2023 · These photos take you back to 1960s, a decade which brought enormous social and economic change and heralded the start of high density living for a generation of residents.
- Memories of the Leeds streets that now have no name
Leeds slum clearance. Armenia Square was an L-shaped road....
- Memories of the Leeds streets that now have no name
Like most major British cities, Leeds first experienced major slum clearance in the 1930s. In Leeds, the local authority was unenthusiastic about clearance and the large-scale programme of the 1930s only began after a popular campaign in favour of clearing the slums, and the subsequent election of a local Labour administration.
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From 1964 to 1969, 385,270 houses in England were demolished or condemned during slum-clearance schemes. [18] Slum clearance accelerated during the 1960s: 10,000 more slum houses were demolished during 1968 than in 1963. [19]
Oct 24, 2021 · In 1907, Leeds County Borough, the predecessor of Leeds City Council, began clearing the city's slums. Jewish Leylands residents, now with more money, moved north to Chapeltown and after World War Two, to the desirable new suburbs of Moortown and Alwoodley.
Aug 16, 2024 · Leeds slum clearance. Armenia Square was an L-shaped road. These houses backed onto industrial premises on Roseville Road. Included in slum clearance for the Roundhay Road area. Pictured in...
Feb 1, 2018 · It first outlines the origin of the house type, before examining the urban layout, building form and social aspects of back-to-back courts in the first half of the 19th century, and the role of speculative developers, building societies and sanitary reformers.
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Local Politics in Leeds and the Slum Clearance ‘Crisis’, 1971-1973 In 1971 Leeds City Council published a reassessment of housing policy which led to the decision to embark on what became known as ‘Strategy D’, an approach that intended an increase in slum clearance levels through the rest of the 1970s.
