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Reference NumberP/RAM/7/1
LevelFile
TitleHousing
Date(s)1960-1963
nd
Description'County Council on "the problem of Sander Street''' East London Advertiser 14/10/60.

'A more vigorous slum clearance plan needed' (Unknown newspaper, probably East End News 2/12/60)

'Mrs. Ramsay stands firm during Council storm over 'housing injustices'' East London Advertiser 9/12/60

'Ten years on housing list - eight live in two rooms' 22/12/60 (letter to editor of unnamed newspaper)

East London Advertiser 'Advertiser viewpoint: BRAVO, BERMONDSEY' (On housing policy), undated, c 1960

'Changing housing policy to suit modern needs - £25 million for associations who will build small homes to rent.' Times 15/2/61

'Housing conditions in Stepney - LCC comment on open letter' East End News?, 19/5/61

'House fall drama. Boy dies. Five trapped as roof caves in' [names deceased as Robbie Jitterbo, aged 9, of Anthony Street] (Daily Herald 14 Jul 1961, with ' Stepney father accuses "I warned LCC of factory danger"' [names deceased as Robert Jitubuh, aged 14] Evening Standard, 14 Jul 1961)

'Minister gets angry reception from tenants - visit to East End buildings.' (The Times 27/7/61)

'Housing Minister in East End, visit to Royal Jubilee Buildings.' [Wapping] (probably East End News, 4/8/61)

'M.P. was shocked by what he saw in Stepney tour - Parliament told of squalid living conditions.' East End News 9/2/62 (2 copies)

'Losing the battle of the slums' by Russell Taylor (Observer 5/8/62)

Housing in multiple occupation - A pilot survey' by R W Watton (Stepney Medical Officer of Health) reprinted from The Medical Officer, 23/11/62 (108, 325-326) to which is attached 'Cleansing wind on crowded houses. City's immigrant problem' (re Birmingham) (Times, 3 Dec 1962)

'[Property] - the life and times of Peter Rachman' The Sunday Times 7/7/63

Articles on housing problems in Stepney pinned together: 'Let's Have Housing Justice' East End Advertiser 25/11/60, 'And in the slum clearance areas of Stepney. Brooke Sees the Worst' 27/7/61, 'How bad is Stepney housing' Church of England newspaper 17/2/61 and 'Letters to the Editor: Let's have a just housing policy, says this worker' East End Advertiser 13/4/62, and '22 years later he's still waiting for a decent home, east London Advertiser?, 30 Apr 1962

"Dr. Hill's task" (Times?, undated) re new Minister of Housing and Local Government"

Three cuttings pinned together with typescript notes by ?Ramsay: 'Differential Rents in Practice' by Stephen Hugh-Jones (unattributed and undated), 'Advertiser viewpoint. Rent rows ahead' (?East London Advertiser, undated), and 'More houses to rent...' Government white paper on housing (unattributed and undated)
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