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5- White Horse Alley leads from Benjamin Street to Cow
Cross Street. The entrance from Benjamin Street is open and
uncovered, and only 7 ft. wide, the walls on either side being very
high. The Cow Cross Street entrance is a covered way, 27 ft. long,
5 ft. wide, and 9 ft. high. Facing No. 8 there is a high building,
the Court at this point being 6 ft. wide. Also fronting Market
Building, where the width is 7 ft., there is another high building.
These buildings effectually prevent free access of air and light. The
Court contains 16 houses, most of which contain three compound
rooms, but No. 1 contains 19 rooms, and in this Court also are
"Market Buildings," which consist of 13 rooms (37 persons), let in
single room tenements.
6. Pump Court is a cul de sac, and is approached from White
Horse Alley, Benjamin Street, by a covered way, 18 ft. long,
3 ft. 6 in. wide, and 7 ft. 3 in. high. There are 9 houses, 8 of which
contain 3 rooms, one above the other, and 1 contains 5 rooms.
The Court in its widest part measures 15 ft., and at its narrowest
5 ft., whilst the width from the front to the back of houses in White
Horse Alley is at one point only 10 ft. There are 84 persons
resident in the Court.
7- Berkley Court is a cul de sac and leads out of Berkley
Street, running parallel with Francis Court. It contains 15 houses
of 6 rooms each, there being 180 persons residing in them. The
light and air space at the rear of the houses on one side has recently
been seriously interfered with, as the houses on one side of Francis
Court have been pulled down, the new buildings being brought 6 feet
nearer and reducing the total space between the two sets of buildings
to about 14 feet.
In the same neighbourhood is Stratton Place, which is also a
cul de sac, and is approached from Berkley Street. It contains
three houses, one of which, No. 2, has been closed about 10"years
by Magistrates' Order under the Housing of Working Classes Act,
1890. No. 1 contains 3 rooms, one above another, no basement
but a small yard. No. 3 contains 6 rooms. There are 18 persons
living in these two houses.