ABSTRACT
Moxley Jenner is thoroughly modern architects who have turned their skills to restoration and infill work in historic settings when the need has arisen. Trinity, a seventeenth-century suburb of Frome, Somerset, is the earliest area of industrial workers' housing to survive in Britain. Economic decline over the last hundred years resulted in the gradual degeneration of Trinity into a slum. In 1974 Mendip District Council included it in a conservation area. Moxley Jenner was commissioned to produce a study which recommended rehabitation and then, with the aid of a Historic Buildings Council grant, to carry it out. Wirksworth was once the third largest town in Derbyshire; the handsome mid-eighteenth-century town houses, inns, and other public buildings in the centre attest to a past of prosperity and pride. A large, new quarry near the town centre covered the whole place in a pall of dust which soon drove anyone who could afford to move to a neighbouring and more salubrious area.
