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MANCHESTER ROW

This narrow passage, only 7 feet wide, was to be found in Upper Bedford Street, between Bedford Buildings and Crescent Cottages. A squalid row of about a dozen slum houses, it was entered only from Upper Bedford Street, the other end being blocked by a high wall. Facing north, towards Bedford Buildings, no sunshine ever lit up their dingy windows. The photographs are dated March 1912, and the houses were condemned soon afterwards. The 1914-18 war gave them a temporary reprieve and they were still occupied until well into the 1920s. They were demolished in 1925 as part of the Corporation first post-war slum clearance. This view from the east looks towards Upper Bedford Street.

Image Reference: JG_22_186.tif
Date: 1912
Image Details: Copy
Size of Original: 95x136
Place: Brighton
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