Description: Picture taken from above the sandstone cliff, from factories in the Lace Market, looking down over Narrow Marsh. This area had just been re-developed at the time of this photograph. Prior to this, the area was filled with some of the worst, densely populated slums of the city. Cliff Road roughly followed a route that would have been occupied by Crosland Place and Red Lion Street, see NTGM000397 as an example one of the many photographs on the web site of this area. The houses seen in the picture here were some of the earliest built Council Houses in the Country. The view looks across towards Canal Street, with St John The Baptist C of E Church in the centre on Shortwood Close. (St John's church was bombed in the May 1941 air raid and was later demolished).