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Jaime
Kaminski
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The early 1920s were a critical time in UK housing provision. Although there were some planned local authority housing schemes, such as Moulsecoomb, Brighton, there were many unplanned landscapes of informal settlement appearing on urban fringes and in rural locations across the country. Sweet Hill, Patcham, was one such. This article explores some of the previously hidden history of this settlement, which would have been mirrored across many of the marginal landscapes of Britain.