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former tobacco works, now residential. On the western side stands the former
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further south. Residential buildings are coloured to represent the economic class of the occupants, including: red ("Lower middle class – Well-to-do middle class"); pink ("Fairly comfortable good ordinary earnings"); blue ("Intermittent or casual earnings"); and black ("lowest class...occasional
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along the approximate line of former Essex Street, Rose Lane and Red Lion Street, and entailed the demolition of some 250 sub-standard properties in
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