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Craft, I remember similar events taking place around me as a child - and I expect most people posting on here can....it beggars belief that these communities were destroyed, and I found it very telling that someone explained why the modern flats become dodgy...ie even if you buy one, you can't do it up as much as you'd like - so you move out and away.
I can also recall the zeitgeist, which was absolutely against anything 'old-fashioned'. I believe a lot of this demolition was done across the country simply to build 'fashionable' structures rather than for any good reason.
That, and the Poulson effect, hem-hem.
BTW what happened to Smilingcrow's thread on the Freemasons?