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This area was known locally as 'The City'. It was grossly overcrowded with poor quality houses and was Halifax's first major slum clearance area in the 1940s & 1950s. In 2013 it is bisected by the dual carriageway A58 Yorkshire - Lancashire trunk road and by 1960s buildings (including high-rise flats). '