The life and death of an estate: Rare photos capture changing face of one Manchester suburb
From the demolition of Hulme's traditional terraced streets to the construction and eventual demise of the modernist towers ...
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'A cigarette paper away from greatness': Tributes to Jamie Nicholson, Hulme Crescents' 'unsung hero' of Manchester music
Jamie Nicholson had just moved into a four-bed flat on the top floor of Hulme's Charles Barry Crescent. It was a big place for someone living on their own. But for what he had in mind he needed ...
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Photographer Richard Davis's post-Brexit fears inspired new work
"To pay Kevin back, I did a load of photos for him." As a former resident of Hulme Crescents, a large housing development which was demolished in the mid-1990s, the photographer said he had seen ...
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Tower block tenants protest at landlord’s offices over ‘broken promises’
Other nearby blocks, including the famous Hulme crescents, were condemned around 20 years after being built in the early 1970s. A letter giving notice of the protest, signed by several tenants and ...
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The life and death of an estate: Rare photos capture changing face of one Manchester suburb
Hulme Crescents would become known as one of the most notorious of Manchester's new housing experiments of the decade. Yet the 1965 chair of the housing committee, Eric Mellor, touted these deck ...