THEY offer a window into south Manchester's rich and everevolving past.
A set of fascinating photographs captures the changing face of a south Manchester suburb through the mid-to-late 20th century.
The history of Hulme will be familiar to those interested in Manchester's social history.
In the 1960s, many of Hulme's slum terraces were raised to the ground, and the displaced communities were rehomed in the newly constructed concrete tower blocks.
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-access sixstorey blocks as 'one of the finest schemes in Europe!
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