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Old 06-11-2007, 11:59   #104
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Re: gypsy's....again

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Originally Posted by garinda View Post
Look at all the perfectly good Victorian houses that were demolished in Church. After twenty years the new houses built on the same site were, or are, to be demolished.
As usual, Garinda is wrong. The houses that were pulled down in the late '70's were in the old Henry/Walmsley/Ernest street area. Unusually, many of these were brick faced and of a very poor 19c construction; few at the time had indoor bath/toilet facilities. These dwellings were certainly of no architectural merit and it was far more cost effective to pull 'em down.

The demolition of some of those replacement houses more recently was simply as part of the Church Gateway improvement plan, although it is somewhat debatable as to whether this exercise should have been carried out in the absence of a fully funded scheme.
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