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When I have alluded to Brady Street Mansions I think I have
finished with Railway operations of any importance. Eighty apartments
were in course of erection by a private owner when the
property was acquired by the Great Eastern Railway Company,
together with ground adjoining upon which three times the number of
rooms will be placed. Probably persons from a neighbouring District
will reside in these buildings—at any rate, no persons were dislodged
to afford this new accommodation.
At the present time in Mansell Street the London and NorthWestern
Railway Company are erecting Warehouses upon a site which previously
housed 300 persons. These people have had to seek shelter
where they could.
Various Blocks of Model Dwellings have been erected upon land
which, although vacant for some years, had originally houses upon it in
such a condition as to cause the Metropolitan Board of Works to invoke
Cross' Act to clear it.
I allude to Flower and Dean Street, Thrawl Street, &c. Then, again,
some houseB have been purchased for Commercial purposes, and Warehouses
already take the place of Dwellings—such as the Wool Warehouses
and Messrs. Kinloch's Warehouse in Back Church Lane.
Again, over 300 persons have vacated in the past few months houses
which were in Courts in Back Church Lane ; here, vacant ground remains
which probably will soon have Warehouses erected upon it.
About 800 persons who occupied the 120 houses in the Bell Lane
area have become scattered—although probably in a few months provision
will be made to re-house as many, or perhaps more. In this
work of improvement the London County Council have assisted.
On the whole it is clear that more accommodation now exists for the
working classes in the Whitechapel District than was the case before
these changes took place.