The notorious tycoon, once reported to have a staggering £800million fortune, has been mostly out of the UK spotlight ... Labeling it the "biggest slum in Britain", Uckfield residents describe ...

However, it was the scale of destruction in World War 2 - when 4 million homes were destroyed in the UK - that paved the way for large-scale slum clearances. All UK cities had slum areas.

The situation was similar in many other large UK cities. Plans were proposed in the 1950s to clear the slums and re-house people in modern high-rise blocks, purpose-built estates on the outskirts ...

A new project has repaired, photographed and shared online forgotten maps of Manchester’s slums, which had been overlooked for the last 130 years. The maps from the early 1880s provide information on ...

It’s funded by the Wellcome Trust, a UK-based philanthropic agency, and the Asian Development Bank. How will your water-management programme benefit slums? These programmes will improve ...

THE slum clearance at Longlands was instigated by Frederick Jowett, Chairman of the Health Committee, who worked to improve conditions for ...