Street urchins at a horse-trough pump—often the on!y source of wafer for poorer househo!ds. Prom "Past Positive" (Chatto & Windug, 62). Cordon Winter's coHection of earty photographs vividty refiects the different facets of London society.

By .!. in?. M. THOMPSON City Close-Up BY JEREMY SEABROOK. A.L.P.P., €2 -50. The Classic Slum BY R. ROBERTS. Manchester U P., €2 -64. The History of Working^iass Housing EDITED BY STANLEY D. CHAPMAN David & Charles, €4*75.

CHAPMAN. TEREMY SEABROOK spent J two months in Blackburn, in unlovely Lancashire, cajoling the local people into describing their lives and their opinions to his tape recorder. City Close-Up contains what they said, with his own subsequent comments added. The result is a picture of working-class life which is by turns sad and funny and often curiously haunting. Blackburn and...