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King's Slums in Richmond Stir Public Outcry Over Royal Property
A London dispatch details a blighted slum area nicknamed the King's Slums in Richmond near Queen Elizabeth’s palace site. Tenants endure overcrowding, high rents, and squalid conditions with evictions, while reformers press the King to act. residents reject improvement plans as intrusive.
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Curtis Brown
London
Richmond
Elizabeth
Thames
England
Wordsworth
Thomson
Charles Kean
George Eliot
Janes
Adam Bede
Edward VII
America
Board of Aldermen
Town Hall
Castle Yard
Prospect Terrace
Artichoke Avenue
Manor Place
Free Church Council
Richard Armstrong
Red Lion Street