Terraced housing in the Belgrave area of Leicester. These 19th century workers dwellings are ubiquitous throughout the city, and in many other UK cities. The original internal layout rarely varied - you walk directly off the street into the front room. A door on the far wall leads into the rear room, with a small kitchen off, and a door to very steep stairs that climb acoss the middle of the house to two first floor bedrooms. Note - no bathroom! Of course all now have bathrooms, either contsructed to the rear of , or above, the kitchen. These houses would have been constructed for employees of Leicester's textile trade - knitting, overlocking, dyeing and finishing. Little of this trade remains, but the pervasive and distictive odour from one of the few remaining dyehouses still occasionally affects some areas of the city.
