[4] During the Second World War, the Institution Street (now Holborn Approach) area was accidentally bombed by the German Luftwaffe during night-time blackout air-raid unsuccessful attempts to destroy a nearby industrial target.
There are also concrete council houses (the Holborn Estate) and a mixture of more modern buildings, particularly student accommodation.
Other older buildings include Quarry Mount Primary School, and several public houses.
The suffragette, socialist and trade unionist Mary Gawthorpe was born in Woodhouse in 1881.
Alice Mann, the radical printer and bookseller had moved to a house on St Mark's Terrace by 1851.