In the late 1800s the City Engineers Department started recording slum clearance programmes and delapidated courts about to bite the dust. Achievements such as sewer building, road building, street lighting etc were also recorded as were new builds such as tenements and houses along the new boulevards etc.
In the 1960s,70s and 80s Harry Ainscough used to make treks from Sheffield to Liverpool to photograph thousands of streets, these too were bequathed to the LRO and are a brilliant record of life as it was with vehicles and fashions of the day captured too.
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You could spend months in the search room of the Central library Pabs.
Many of these now are of course on my site.
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