Hulme Crescents 1978

A short edited documentry about Hulme in Manchester. The housing sceme was a failure from start to finish. The estate was finaly demolished in the mid 1990's

Category:

Education

Tags:

• hulme
• crescents
• slum
• housing
• inner
• city
• manchester

[FASTF0RWARD]

No problem.

[GriefTourist]

quite easy if the designers don't have to live there themselves.

[erictheviking871]

@urbex2007 your right i live in a area similar 10 years ago it was spot on working lads and couples now its riddled with skinny scruffy twats who are thick as fuck and couldnt work if they even got a job. the council dont care as long as the housing benefit keeps rolling in . im glad im moving out but theres good lads who are stuck there through no fault of there own.

[cabasse]

as an american, (even with the architectural dissimilarity) this really reminds me of what i've heard about places here like pruitt-igoe

very interesting.

[thepastyman91]

Reminds me of the Hightown flats. They were a hole as well.

[gsp160]

FUCK U ALL yr poor little kids might fall off the shitty housing ghetto u live in?HERES A THOUGHT u cannot afford a house u hav no job..U HAVE TO CARRY YR KIDS UP 3 FLIGHTS OF STAIRS?got a solution for u its quite simple.STOP HAVING KIDS IF U CANNOT PROVIDE FOR THEM close ya fuckin legs u poor excuse.most of us are not born rich or successful and plan for a family and its no secret basic hard work and attitude TRY IT AND STOP BLAMING OTHERS for YOUR poor judgement

[freethoughtmusic]

My Dad worked in a lot of Post-War Urban-Renewal and although he wasn't anything to do with Hulme he worked with many architechts. I got kind of infected with his utopian enthusiasm. It is so sad that something that really was beautiful, not pretty, but beautiful in a brutalistic kind of way could have been such a sociealogical disaster. The failed dream of collectivist social visions. Ayn Rand had a point in the failure of collectivism. Read Anthem.

[IanHJames]

Oh, I forgot to add that they were moving students in to raise the tone of the place. Must have been *really* bad, if students made it better.

[IanHJames]

I dunno, I lived there as a student 1981-1982. I shared flat Flat 117 (in the south-east block, I think) with Adrian West and Sarah McConnachie. After a lick of paint, it didn't seem too bad to me, except for the odd glue-sniffing kid in the stairwells. I quite liked it actually - and it was very cheap too!

[mrkristoff]

@urbex2007 die

[misternorwood]

funny shit this...

[bluebus270]

The council only had to look over the pennines at Quarry Hill, Leeds to see what a disaster the crescents were.