IHBC’s heritage business register HESPR – our Historic Environment Service Providers Recognition quality assurance scheme for heritage services – emails members weekly ‘News and Tender Alerts’, and this week features Building’s anniversary feature on ‘The clearance of London’s worst slum’.
Building writes:
Letters and news items [from the Archives] chart the construction of a new road through the centre of the notorious St Giles slum….
St Giles in the 21st century is a polished commercial part of London’s West End, but in the 18th and 19th centuries it was one of the capital’s worst slums….
In 1843….works began to break up the slum……
Building writes in May 1844:
….The locality called the Rookery, which is situated on the line of the new street that is to connect Oxford-street and Holborn, near Southampton-street, and which for many years has been the resort of the abandoned of both sexes, is about to be removed for the improvements in this neighbourhood. Sixty houses….have been sold….and several men are now employed in their removal. The purchaser of the property….has great difficulty in getting rid of the inmates, and in some of the houses, though the roofs have been taken off, they still remain….
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