Terrace Gallery

Burnley DES01_01_0538

A car parked in the cobbled ginnel (alley) running between Milton Street and Tentre Street viewed from Richard Street, Burnley, Lancashire, with Pentridge Mill and mill chimney partially visible in the background. The terraces shown here were demolished in the late 1960s. Holly House flats now occupies the site.. Photographed by Eileen Deste between 1966 and 1974

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Childrens play area JLP01_08_076262

Upton Priory, Macclesfield, Cheshire. A view of children playing in a play area in front of flat-roofed Easiform terraces on a housing estate in Macclesfield.
Easiform was a method of in situ pre-cast concrete construction which John Laing and Son Ltd developed from 1919 onwards

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1960s, Childhood, Children, Housing, Play, Terrace

Little Park Street Coventry, 1941 AA42_00353

Court 16, Little Park Street, Coventry. The houses of Court 16 at the east side of Little Park Street showing damage caused by air raids. Coventry City centre was devastated by air raids in November 1940. The bombing left the cathedral in ruins and destroyed much of the historic fabric of the city. Court number 16 was situated to the rear of 78 and 79 Little Park Street. The West Midlands Police Headquarters now occupies the site

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