8/23/2023 0 Comments Compton place buildings![]() ![]() Northampton Institute as the City University in theġ960s. However, sacrificed for the expansion of the former Of the late Georgian houses survive, particularly in Large parts of the area with public housing, some prosaic,ĭespite much twentieth-century reconstruction, some London County Council and their successors redeveloped The 1930s to the 1970s, Finsbury Borough Council, the Twentieth century that drastic measures were taken. In the 1880s overcrowding and poor living conditions on the NorthamptonĮstate were the subject of scrutiny by the RoyalĬommission on the Housing of the Working Classes, andĪlthough some amelioration resulted it was not until the Management allowed the insertion of small houses inĬourts, and slum conditions flourished. Indifference or laxity on the part of the estate The new streets and houses attracted inhabitants fromĪmong those engaged in the metal-working industries,Ĭhiefly clock- and watchmaking, already established inĬlerkenwell. ![]() Lunatic asylum and a sale-ground for sheepskins, whileĪcross the ground ran the water mains of the New RiverĬompany, beside which nightsoil was deposited. It contained, besides a few houses of lowly character, a London and alongside a main droving road to Smithfield. The nineteenth century, the ground was mostly pastoral.īut it was far from idyllic, lying as it did on the margin of Northampton-the eastern of the two Northamptonīefore its systematic development in the early years of Middle of the twentieth to the Earls, later Marquesses, of It was, historically, known as Woods Close andīelonged from the end of the sixteenth century until the Centring on Northampton Square, the large and diverseĪrea described in this chapter extends north fromĬompton Street to Wynyatt Street, and is bounded on theĮast and west by Goswell Road and St John Street (Ill.Ĥ10).
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