The fashionable Victorian shops of London's Regent Street hid a dark secret - behind its grand façades, down alleys and courts were some of the filthiest hovels in West London where many of the capital's poor lived and worked. John Nash, Regent Street's architect, believed the construction of Regent Street would divide the upper classes and nobility of Mayfair to its west and the working classes of Soho to its east. Regent Street was designed for shop keepers of fashion to rival Bond Street and appeal to this rich clientele – the " riff raff " butchers and greengrocers who used to make a living in the neighbourhood were not allowed. Find out how, behind this famous London street, was to be found a dystopian world of dark alleys, filthy overcrowded hovels and poverty unlike anything the wealthy shoppers on Regent Street could possibly imagine.

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CC BY-SA - Great Windmill Street, London by Fernando Losada Rodríguez; Swallow Street, City of Westminster, London by Heb on Wikimedia Commons

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