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spite of the survival of red-brick housing estates from the 1930s,
slum clearance and urban renewal programmes from the 50s, high-rise
flats and supermarkets from the 60s, and fly-over and motorway
construction from the 70s, the physical shape and layout of the
area can be seen largely as the product of commercial and industrial
activity which had lost its momentum before the first world war. Although machine tools, quarrying, confectionery manufacturing and other enterprises
had extended Calderdales commercial and industrial base, the
20th century was a period of relative stagnation and decline,
and this often left ugly scars on the landscape: derelict empty
buildings, drab and unimaginative new developments, and pockets
of depressing urban wasteland once occupied by architecturally
striking edifices.
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