Council Housing - Parkfield Grove
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Council Housing - Parkfield Grove
Image: © John M Taken: 30 Oct 2010
The shortage of available land within the borough was a constraint to the advent of organised council house building. The Parkfield Estate was built in the early 1920s on the former Parkfield Colliery site. This small group of 1960s is fitted in behind the church on Dixon Street.
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Image Location
Latitude
52.568518
Longitude
-2.116806