All These Came In The Post This Morning

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I've lived on the street for nearly twenty five years. It was a run-down, white, working class area when I moved in. Then the upwardly mobile Asian families started appearing. For a while one of the bigger houses was owned by a local gangster who had a couple of properties on the street which he used as lodging houses for ex-cons. We have a very mixed population now: long term white residents, respectable Asian families, asylum seekers, immigrant workers in bedsits- almost a microcosm of modern Britain.