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Streets Apart: A History of Social Housing

Series 1

The First Council Homes

Duration: 15 minutes

on BBC Radio 4 FM

Available for over a year

Lynsey Hanley visits the first ever council housing in Liverpool. She explores how the first attempts at housing the working class were based more on pragmatism than idealism. Show more

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