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ALBION HILL AREA-CAMBRIDGE STREET

Cambridge Street (historic street)

1956
2018

James Gray: In this view is a photograph of Cambridge Street, in April 1956. This was the next street above Ashton Street, to which it was similar in appearance and period. The same builder may have built them. This street was hit by bombs during the 1939-1945 War, and nearly all the houses on the east side were demolished. Those seen in the photograph went in December 1958. jgc_27_076

2018: 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. To give some idea of the overcrowded conditions that prevailed at the time, on a short walk between Richmond Place and what is now the northern part of John Street you would have passed the entrances to no less than fourteen streets. (Photographer: Ron Fitton)

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