Originally posted by Roy Corduroy
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The plainer houses in the middle might have been something like #26 Dorset St in form, although #26 and #27 have a distinctive alleyway running between them. It's narrow and I can't explain its function. If there was a coach-house behind each of those houses, then maybe you'd bring the horse down through there. But what about the coach? Or wagon? Or whatever? You wouldn't get that down there so easily!
Edited to add that numerous complaints were logged against the builders who were working that area at that time. Bad mortar, bad bricks, bad everything! So even the original 'nice' houses were probably in very shoddy shape within a few years.
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