Mission Photograph Album - Cities #1 page 0292

Mission Photograph Album - Cities #1 page 0292

1918

Board of Missions of the Methodist Episcopal Church

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H3719 Pancoast Street: Chester 1918. Longbottom gutter on the right hand side of street. There were no toilet facilities and filth was thrown from doors of houses. The only water supply was a burst pipe where water bubbled from the ground. On the other side of street were two privies and two water suppliers for 12 houses. Chester race riots started from this section.

H3720 Pancoast Street. Longbottom Gutter. Note last house where window is boarded up is occupied by man, wife, 5 children and 4 lodgers in 4 rooms. Chester.

H3721 Williams Court. Windows out, no water supply, no toilet facilities. First floor occupied by man + wife- second floor front by two men + their wives. Another family lives where the [rest of text lost].

H3722 Townsend Street. Formerly a school house now a tenement. Four families. Chester.

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