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Heath TownHeath Town is a district of Wolverhampton which sprung up in the late 19th century, with many terraced houses being built in the shadow of factories near the main road to Lichfield. In the late 1960's and early 1970's, Heath Town was almost totally redeveloped when the majority of the area's Victorian terraces were bulldozed to make way for many blocks of council flats - between 4 and 20 storeys high. These flats were praised on their construction for having modern facilities which their predecessors lacked, but by the 1980's Heath Town had become a notorious area ravaged by drugs, prostitution, race hate, vandalism, graffiti, anti-social behaviour, car crime and even several murders. In 1989 a massive pub brawl in Heath Town made international headlines. Heath Town has a large percentage of Asian and Afro-Caribbean residents who emigrated to England during the 1950's and 1960's and originally settled in the Victorian terraced before relocating to the modern council flats. In recent years the quality of life around Heath Town has improved with some flats being demolished while most of the remaining flats have been renovated.
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