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Eventually, however, the slum clearance programme restarted. Leeds City Council created a new register where the houses and streets that were to be demolished were marked in colour on copies of the 1939 Ordnance Survey Maps for Leeds.
Nov 16, 2023 · It was a decade which brought slum clearance and redevelopment that helped shape modern Burmantofts. These photos take you back to 1960s, a decade which brought enormous social and economic...
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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Nov 3, 2017 · [1934] Map of the Slum Clearance Areas and Housing Estates Which is where our new series comes in. While these maps can not hope to recover the actual lived experiences of protesters, their framing as a discrete set at least situates those alternative voices as an unavoidable fact in the wider story of Leeds.
Apr 29, 2007 · It argues against the delivery of serviced sites and suggests that slum clearance can be tackled without the intermediate relocation of residents.
Nov 2, 2020 · They are the Hunslet streets that no longer exist. These photos showcase the roads earmarked for demolition as part of Leeds City Council 's slum clearance programme of the 1950s and 1960s.
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Jun 13, 2024 · Bank is an area of the city that time erased, that appears to have disappeared off the map and removed from the memory of locals. It was a very poor deprived slum area of the city in the 1800s...
