The terraced houses on Anita Street feature small, fenced front gardens that distinguish them from the soot-stained industrial brickwork typical of Victorian Ancoats. When the Manchester Corporation built these homes in eighteen eighty-five, they included these green spaces to encourage tenant cleanliness and improve the stifling living conditions of local mill workers. Families moved into these dwellings with the promise of modern sanitation and sunlight, a sharp change from the cramped cellar dwellings that had defined the neighborhood for generations.
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