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Social Democratic Party's Notes on Visits to Workmen's
Houses in Hackney, 21st to 22nd November, 1908.
1. 271, Glyn Road.—Front room basement flooring rotten,
when a person sits on a chair, the chair legs go through the floor.
Passage flooring decayed. Scullery roof leaks. Internal painting
required throughout the house. Plaster skirting crumbling
away. Upper part of house requires re-papering.
2. 18, Crozier Terrace.—A starved woman at this house
would not give admittance. She did not wish her poverty to be
known, but reported bad ceilings throughout the house.
As regards this street in general, on one side the houses are
being renovated (preparatory to their use by the Guardians), but
on the side still occupied by weekly tenants there are many
unsound windows in the houses. To obtain the best idea of the
character of this property the visitor should go through Bones
Cotts. into the rope yard between the backs of the houses in
Crozier Terrace and Nisbet Street. It will be seen that fences
are broken, windows boarded or stuffed with rag, chimney pots
falling off, and the wall dividing the Crozier Terrace yards from
the rope yard is tumbling down. Doors to water closets are
either absent, without hinges, or have been cut to pieces. The
yards require making up and every wall needs limewashing
It would be difficult to find a sadder example of dilapidation
than the rear of Crozier Terrace.
3. Nisbet Street—The rear of the houses in Nisbet Street
are not so bad as in Crozier Terrace, but many windows are
boarded or stuffed. The roofs are in a bad state of repair,
chimney pots broken, and limewashing is generally needed. At