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Insight into UK slum building from 1800s

This extract taken from ‘The Making Of The English Landscape’ by W.G. Hoskins is brutal and telling.

This entry was posted in 1700's, 1800's, Books, Scrapbook and tagged Birmingham, building, cities, history, Housing, industrialist, interest rates, land, property speculators, slums on December 7, 2017 by cow.

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