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appalling living and working conditions within these expanding mill towns initially went unheeded, and the new textile
factories stood side by side with barrack-like back-to-back slums
along the congested valley floors, whilst double-decker terraces
clung precariously to the steep hillsides. In Halifax, cellar
dwellings and open sewers presented an ever-increasing challenge
to the newly created borough authority. The booming Pennine town
paid little attention initially to basic public amenities, and
in 1843 was described as a 'mass of little, miserable, ill-looking
streets, jumbled together in chaotic confusion'.
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