Broomsleigh Street dates from the 1880s.
In the mid nineteenth century, the Earlsfields estate was reduced by the Midland railway to a triangle of land which was sold to the Land Building Investment and Cottage Improvement Co.
Terraced houses in varied styles presumably indicating the builders, E. Garrett and William Brown, both of Ravenshaw Street, J. C. Wallas of Belsize Road, and Rathbone of Croydon, were crammed into Broomsleigh Street between 1883 and 1887. Another ten were built in Broomsleigh Street in 1890.
The council opened eight dwellings in Broomsleigh Street in 1953.
The demolition of Broomsleigh Street was urged in the mid 1950s, because of bad drainage and neglected houses. They had been overcrowded in the 1930s but survived.
