tenement(housing)

[getonwithit]

can anyone tell me who would of owned a street of victorian houses built 1870s in hackney as middle class homes with servants bells ,but by 1890 most of these houses would have dual occupancy familys with most jobs being clerks .obviously this is before the wellfare state or council housing thankyou

[dot.hawkes]

By the 1890s the middle class families were moving out of \London as the suberbs were created and a new cleaner quieter way of life for their families, and the commuter was born. The houses they left behind were bought by property firms and rented out to the blue collar city workers who could afford the rent for a few rooms. Some rooms were rented by single men and women who paid board to the tennant to subsidise the rent.

[Octavius]

See some info here:

http://www.locallocalhistory.co.uk/studies/cub itt/index.htm

[Octavius]

A lot of the area around Hackney might have been owned by William Amhurst Tyssen Amburst, Esq.