Tony Wilson, Kersal Flats and Slums Part 1

Part 1 of the full version of a 1974 Granda TV news story on housing crisis, slums, the housing boom and mortgages.

This includes Tony Wilson filming in Rushley Avenue near Kersal Flats, and has footage of the flats and the surrounding streets (more)

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• Kersal
• Salford
• Flats
• Manchester
• housing
• poverty
• Tony
• Wilson
• 1970s
• run
• down
• council
• urban

[neil73]

I remember areas of Leeds like this when I was a little kid. Back to back houses with 'flags' for pavement and cobblestreet roads, outside lavatories shared by four housesholds in the binyard, and some still even had coalfires. But the thing is that they had a better sense of community; everybody vaguely knew each other. You won't find that in cities in the UK anymore.

[Ordsall66]

Tony Wilson is a legend.

They fucked up when they cleared the "slums" and replaced them with high rise flats.

[salfordjc]

Frank Allaun what a loss to the movement and Salford when he died....................

[richiesking]

Im not a mancunian but i feel like crying when i see this.Tony was such a force for good and could easily have fucked off to London and made a shitload of cash but he wanted to better the condition of manchester and to live in his own city.RIP TONY you were a great man.

[neil73]

@rubberplantsandwich Weird, because I lived in Bramley for years and was up there today! The place is/has gone down hill fast. The Cardigan pub is falling to bits, more charity and pawn shops in the precinct (a sure sign of a poverty striken area) and gangs of teenagers, ages from 8 to early 20's roam the streets looking for trouble, or someone to go in the shop for them. Urban blight all over again. Strangely, Bramley is still a predominantly white area of Leeds.

[rubberplantsandwich]

yep, Bramley is was still like that when I grew up there in the '70s, still is when I go back there now. Every other town in this country flattened their back to backs in the 60's. When I take my scouse wife back to Bramley she can't believe that back to backs still survive their. She laughs at the washing hanging our across the cobble stoned street and the yard at the end for the bins.

[Bignadim]

low rise slums!!! as they were graded replaced by less then savoury high rise flats that became slums them selves! failed lifts anti social behaviour no community sense!! old terraces had space for bathrooms and had backyards