FOLLOWING last week’s piece on former pubs in the city, we thought we’d serve up another round!

Today’s images are taken from the same collection, photographed by Tom Marsden, Chief Public Health Inspector in the late 1950s and 60s.

While some of the buildings featured here do still survive, there are several that were located in the slum clearance areas of the city.

After the advent of the 1957 Housing Act (which required that houses should be fit for human habitation!), some 3,500 houses were condemned as unsanitary and unsafe, which led to whole streets in areas like the Blockhouse, The Moors and St Clements being demolished during the late 1950s and 1960s.

Worcester News:

Charles Edwards Ltd, also known as the Dolphin, on the corner of Angel Place and Broad Street, 1966

Along with swathes of housing, the pubs that served them were destined to closure and therefore met a similar fate. 

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Worcester News:

The Carpenters Arms, on the corner of Spring Gardens & Loves Grove in March 1959

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