The predominant character of this area today is one of 20th century light metal trades industries, but the road pattern survives from its laying out in the early 19th century, The 1851 OS shows a predominance of back to back housing courts throughout the area, with regular industrial and institutional buildings interspersed as part of an integrated industrial neighbourhood. Important survivals of this neighbourhood which, with the street pattern, provide partial legibility of its previous character include the substantial and architecturally significant ranges of Beehive, Ceylon and Eyewitness Works, which all date from the later 19th century and form an impressive group; surviving blind back houses on Canning Street and converted former back to backs on Milton Street (now through houses); the early 20th century Trafalgar Works; the listed frontage of the Mount Zion Chapel on Westfield Terrace; and a number of other surviving brick built structures. During the 20th century much back to back housing was demolished in this area and subsequently replaced with further metal trades and related light industrial units. Some of these buildings are interesting in their own right. Recent development has involved the demolition of much mid twentieth century fabric and its replacement with student accommodation and flats. Fragmentary legibility of older street pattern