The Flower Estate, Sheffield: ‘dainty villas for well-paid artisans’
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The Flower Estate in Sheffield doesn’t get the attention it deserves but it was a pioneering attempt by a progressive council to create good quality and healthy housing for its working population. And it illustrates how difficult this could be too. Such housing was desperately needed in Sheffield. The town’s industrial workforce had expanded massively in the nineteenth century and housing conditions were correspondingly poor. In 1891, Sheffield’s Medical Officer of Health concluded: (1)
The Flower Estate, Sheffield: ‘dainty villas for well-paid artisans’
The Flower Estate, Sheffield: ‘dainty villas…
The Flower Estate, Sheffield: ‘dainty villas for well-paid artisans’
The Flower Estate in Sheffield doesn’t get the attention it deserves but it was a pioneering attempt by a progressive council to create good quality and healthy housing for its working population. And it illustrates how difficult this could be too. Such housing was desperately needed in Sheffield. The town’s industrial workforce had expanded massively in the nineteenth century and housing conditions were correspondingly poor. In 1891, Sheffield’s Medical Officer of Health concluded: (1)