Streatham Street

Streatham Street is a street in the London district of Bloomsbury, running between New Oxford Street and Great Russell Street. In the 19th century, it was on the border of the disreputable rookery of St Giles, and so became the location for new accommodation which reformers planned would replace the slums.[1]

Streatham Street, London Picture taken from the junction with Coptic Street. Centre Point can be seen on the skyline., 2009

Parnell House was built in the 1850s by Henry Roberts. Originally constructed for Improving the Condition of the Labouring Classes. The building was designed to make slum living a thing of the past.[2][3] Whereas whole families had lived together in one room, now they could enjoy a more spacious living space. The Streatham Street apartments were the first multi level domestic building in the world. Subsequent buildings were erected by George Peabody and Streatham Street was taken over by the Peabody Trust and modernised in later years.

References
  1. Stephen Inwood (2008), Historic London: An Explorer's Companion, Pan Macmillan, p. 280, ISBN 9780230705982
  2. Sharon Marcus (8 February 1999). Apartment Stories: City and Home in Nineteenth-century Paris and London. University of California Press. pp. 234–. ISBN 978-0-520-92239-6.
  3. Graham Towers (2000). Shelter is Not Enough: Transforming Multi-storey Housing. Policy Press. pp. 13–. ISBN 978-1-86134-156-3.


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