Brook Street estate, New Brook Street, Royal Leamington Spa
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Brook Street estate, New Brook Street, Royal Leamington Spa
Image: © Robin Stott Taken: 2 Apr 2022
The estate has a block of flats, Westbrook House, right, and three-storey terraces of flats, left. Through the gap can be seen the rear of houses in Woodbine Street. The Milverton Brook ran at the bottom of their back gardens; it was an open sewer until it was culverted in haste during the cholera epidemic of 1849. At that time Brook Street had some of the most appalling, crowded and insanitary housing in the Spa.
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Image Location
Latitude
52.291066
Longitude
-1.542226