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ASHTON STREET

Ashton Street (historic street)

1956
2018

James Gray: Two more [jgc_27_074 and 075] of the dingy streets in this area. Photographed in April 1956, they were swept away in the general clearance of December 1958. A typical mid-Victorian working class street, with nothing to distinguish it from many other similar streets in this hilly area. Looking South from the Albion Hill end to Richmond Street School in the distance. jgc_27_075

2018:  The James Gray image here shows Ashton Street, while jgc_27_074 (on the Richmond Parade page) shows Richmond Buildings. With the exception of Albion Street, all the thoroughfares that branched off Richmond Street/Albion Hill were swept away in the great slum clearances of the 1960s.  (Photographer: Ron Fitton)

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