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  • Tags: Housing

Map 01.png
A small section of the 1885 OS map of Leicester highlighting slum housing

Map 02.png
A section of a Google map view of Leicester showing where slum housing used to be.

Housing_Pre-fab kitchen.jpg
A picture of a kitchen of a pre-fabricated house.

Housing_Clar Park Modern House.jpg
A photo of the modernist house built in 1953/4 on Avenue Road, Leicester, for Mr & Mrs Goddard.

Post War Leicester_Goddards house.mp3
Mr & Mrs Goddard talk about the influences behind their modernist house on Avenue Road in Leicester

Housing_doll and brenda_slum.mp3
Dorothy Oliver and Brenda & Ron Brewster recall slum housing in the St Nicholas area of Leicester in the 1950s.

Housing_EyresMonsell_doll and brenda.mp3
Dorothy Oliver and Brenda & Ron Brewster talks about moving into council housing on the Eyres Monsell estate in the 1950s.

Housing_freestone_prefabs and furniture.mp3
Olive Freestone talks about her pre-fab house in Leicester in the 1940s and 1950s.

BC58_living-room-web.jpg
A photo of a couple sitting in a living room in front of the fire place in 1945.

BC59_family-table-web.jpg
A photo of a family eating at the table in 1945
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