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Pretty Union Street should be appreciated for its unusually wide variety of Victorian and Edwardian architecture and its narrow curved layout greatly adds to its attractiion. Like too many streets it has some awful, unsympathetic 20th century developments (the poor window and door treatment of the Albion conversion should never have been allowed in a conservation area) but the good vastly outweighs the bad. Let's hope that the removal of the prison-like featureless wall and the current residential developments help kick start a sadly needed improvement in the retail/light industrial buildings too. Some of the shop owners should really be ashamed of themselves - Victoria Bakery to name an obvious one.