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DESTRUCTION OF SLUMDON BILL SYKES' HAUNT INCLUDED. MODERN FLATS FOR THE DWELLERS [By Cable—Press Assn. — Copyright.] (Received 24. 12.40 p.m.) London, August 23. Bill Sykes’ legendary haunt in Bermondsey will disappear under the London County Council’s £1,000,000 scheme to clear out 90 notorious slums and plague spots in 13’ boroughs. displacing 25,000 inhabitants. Eighteen _ thousand will be re-housed in new five-storey flats with selfcontained tenements of two. three and four rooms, letting at from Is 6d to 15s a week. The remainder will be accommodated elsewhere. Eight and a-half acres of slumdom are being cleared at Shoreditch alone and others in Poplar, Islington, and Bethnal Green. The new buildings will employ 13,500 men all winter. erecting flats in several areas simultaneously, enablin'- the ouickest transformation of slums in municipal history. t The Dickens Association in Bermondsey will commemorate the occasion by naming the flats “Pickwick” and “Oliver Twist.’’ —(Svdnev“Sun” cable)
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, Issue 214, 24 August 1927, Page 5
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