The infamous landlord Peter Rachman started a trend of harassing existing tenants (who had security of tenure and rent controls) until they left, then packing in new tenants who had fewer restrictions and no cap on rent charged.
Shannon's most memorable roles include the gangland boss Harry Flowers in the cult film Performance (1970), Jack in That'll Be the Day (1973), the Agent in Slade In Flame (1975) and Peter Rachman in Scandal (1989).
Though now popular and expensive for home-buyers, much of the area had become run-down in the 1950s, when it was the centre of the activities of notorious slum-landlord Peter Rachman, after whom the phrase "Rachmanism" was coined.
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