Kensington Fiedls was one of the few areas which had the cast iron railings in tact, because they had open drops to the cellars and during the war and the blackout they were scared people would fall downthe holes.
Anyhow we are talking in the past tense now as Kensington New Deal C7 and Liverpool City Council in their infinite wisdom have decided to remove all the old original surviving railings, (these had a variety of patterns based around rose adn other flower designs) with very cheap replicas, hmmmmm, oh yeah the council want it to be a conservation area, er.....hang on this doesnt make sense, better call for Warren Bradley to sort it out.
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There is also a rumour that the original fences have been "sold on" for a nice sum of money. The people who live on the estate are also up in arms because the so called refurbishment of properties has been so badly done, the examples I was told about was interior work being inspected and passed without anyone entering the property (x-ray vision?) and un leaking roofs being reirbish then after the "work" starting to leak. each house has a set amount to spend adn I suspect what is happening is that the builders are getting away with what they can as cheaply as possible and then claiming as much as they can.
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