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im wondering if anyone can tell me why there seems to be a bit of spare land where houses should be on Low Grange Crescent, on my Gt aunt death in 1961 it says her add is 66 Low Grange Crescent on google maps i can see no54, and then the spare land with a fence round, then number 94 thankyou Weenie

weenie wrote: im wondering if anyone can tell me why there seems to be a bit of spare land where houses should be on Low Grange Crescent, on my Gt aunt death in 1961 it says her add is 66 Low Grange Crescent on google maps i can see no54, and then the spare land with a fence round, then number 94 thankyou Weenie This is just a guess, but I've seen similar gaps around Leeds council estates where buildings have been demolished. Another common feature was to mix and match different types of residences on a street - Google street view here shows several styles of houses clearly visible.There was obviously a road into the now cleared area, so it might have been a number of set back properties to a different style to those above and below it in the street. The numbers you quote suggest that 20 dwellings have been removed from that gap, so possibly walk up flats or maisonettes? Or those blocks of one-bed flats that look like a single house? The council has quite a track record of demolishing 'unpopular' residences, which is at least partly the reason there is a shortage of properties now...

weenie wrote: im wondering if anyone can tell me why there seems to be a bit of spare land where houses should be on Low Grange Crescent, on my Gt aunt death in 1961 it says her add is 66 Low Grange Crescent on google maps i can see no54, and then the spare land with a fence round, then number 94 thankyou Weenie There were houses in the gap which are clearly visible on maps from the mid to earlier 20th.CIf however you go back to the original plot of land on the tithe map (plot 292) you will see a "pit hill" is marked (circled as plot 292a.) of some size and so there was a coal mine on the land.I'd be certain the houses were subject to subsidence and were demolished for that reason.