Hulme Crescent

1960'/70's slum housing in Manchester UK. This is the Hulme area of Manchester. The area was demolished in the mid 1990's as the crescents were deemed unfit for human habitation.

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Education

Tags:

• hulme
• Crescent
• slum
• manchester
• 1990's

[tvtimes]

any idea which of the crescents this is ?

[FASTF0RWARD]

Think it was Charles Barry Crescent m8. Someone please correct me if im wrong.

[painlessphil]

it's Charles Barry, then the back of William Kent

[bonsalldogg]

First shot looks like Robert Adam Cresc to me. Then the back of Charles Barry. It's M15 postcode btw

[GriefTourist]

@ucla4eva

yeah he did, seem to remember him saying his flat got burgled and that he held a party which was attented by geno washington who told he he could be a star. this was early 80s

[debraange]

is this the bullrings? was birley high school near?

[dussie08]

lived there whaen i was two years old, dont remember it. my mum always whent to the west indian club every week.

[ucla4eva]

In hindsight they should've knocked that shite down way before they did. Looks like fuckin' Gdanst on a bad day. However alot of very good music came from those blocks. Didn't Ian Brown used to live there?

[decinhuman]

it wasnt as bad as it looks was it realy?ive moved to mossy now :(

[tvtimes]

thanks for that info

[ItsGottaBeFuckinSaid]

Yeah its Charles Barry Crescent, i know by those public toilets, we used to climb on top of the roof and jump off over those bushes!

I lived a 114 CBC from 78 to 86, good times.