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1965-old Birmingham -ladywood-slum clearance
1965-old Birmingham -ladywood-slum clearance
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Peaky Blinders-Barford Street | Their development grew out of overcrowded slums where life was cheap, and from the encompassing presence of alcohol-fuelled violence.
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STOUR STREET, Ladywood. the outdoor standing alone with Mitchells and Butlers sign over the door.
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Peaky Blinders-Allison Street | In Birmingham a fight was called a slog, and so the gang members were at first called sloggers, but later they were known as Peaky Blinders for the fringe of hair or cap peak typically worn over one eye.
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Slum, Birmingham, c. 1872; Broken windows, ragged clothes and narrow alleys. A typical Victorian slum.
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homas St circa 1882 soon to be demolished for the cutting of Corporation Street
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Court Number 1, Thomas Street, Birmingham, 1871: What I like about this photograph is that if you concentrated only on the houses in the background then this could easily be a modern photo. I used to live in a house that looked a little like one of those houses, and anyone travelling to London on the train that passes through Surbiton and Clapham will see scores of homes just like these. Yet, if you cast your eyes down the photo to the cobbled streets, makeshift laundry lines, rickety out-buil