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- Collection: The Post War History of Leicester 1945-1962
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Memories of tuberculosis in Leicester
Trevor Peake talks about how tuberculosis (TB) was viewed as he was growing up
Rosemary Cramp talks about the winter of 1947
Rosemary Cramp talks about her experience of the winter of 1947 living in the countryside
Dennis O'Brien talks about the winter of 1947
Dennis O'Brien talks about his experience of the winter of 1947 living in the city
Margaret Fenwick talks about giving birth at Westcotes
Margaret Fenwick talks about her experience of giving birth to her son at Westcotes maternity hospital and why she did not like it there
Memories of the Capital T Club, Leicester
Janet Ingall talks about the Capital T Club in Leicester during the 1950s.
Memories of slum housing
Dorothy Oliver and Brenda & Ron Brewster recall slum housing in the St Nicholas area of Leicester in the 1950s.
Memories of council housing at Eyres Monsell, leicester
Dorothy Oliver and Brenda & Ron Brewster talks about moving into council housing on the Eyres Monsell estate in the 1950s.
Memories of prefabricated housing in Leicester in the 1940s and 1950s.
Olive Freestone talks about her pre-fab house in Leicester in the 1940s and 1950s.
Slum housing in Leicester
A picture of 'typical court houses in the Russell Street No.115 Clearance Area', Leicester, 1955.
Pre-fab housing
A picture of a kitchen of a pre-fabricated house.