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The new housing in the northeast of Sheffield was largely built to replace slum housing in the city centre and industrialised areas like Attercliffe. The programme of building that had begun in Longley in 1926, continued until the 1950s. In the end, the combined estates formed the second-largest concentration of council housing in Europe. Gas and electricity was installed in most houses along with hot and cold running water. A bathroom and separate toilet in the back porch led many to regard their new homes as little palaces. The new estates, crucially, were built above the smoke line, free of the falling daily soot. The period of unemployment from the early 1980s coincided with a marked decline in public investment in the estates in the north of Sheffield. As a result the area has suffered decades of inadequate maintenance. The latest regeneration programme aims to address residents' concerns. Click on the images to enlarge. |
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Image reproduced by kind permission of Mrs E Crawshaw. Mrs Thwaite, on the left, and a neighbour, standing on the doorstep of her house in Allen Street. Esther Crawshaw, Mrs Thwaite's granddaughter, can be seen in the foreground. She later moved to the northeast.
Image reproduced by kind permission of Alice Bebbington. The Bebbington family originally lived in Parkwood Road, Neepsend. There were eleven of them altogether. Families were large despite the high infant mortality rate that resulted from poor health in the slums. Frank Bebbington, one of the sons, later moved to Parson Cross with his wife.
Clare's father, Uncle George and Auntie Mary outside their house in Lord Street park in 1908. Image reproduced by kind permission of Clare Beech. Memory Leaves which might be of interest:
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