Hulme

WhalleyRange · Feb 9, 2008

A rare photo of the now demolished Queens Square, Hulme, 1964, the first street Morrissey lived on.

Loads of pics of old Manchester on this site, but you have to know the street names.
http://www.images.manchester.gov.uk/

Kewpie · Feb 9, 2008

Thank you very much for posting the photo and the link.
Morrissey was five years old in 1964, must remember many things in there.

starless · Feb 9, 2008

I want to live in the 60s

The Spirit of '69 · Feb 9, 2008

Thanks so much for this link. It's enabled me to locate the street in which my Dad was born in 1932 - just opposite Whitworth Gardens, as it happens - and see pictures of it!

Cowshed · Feb 9, 2008

Wow, I love old pictures like these - thanks for posting it. I never understand why nice community housing gets torn down to make way for 'luxury flats' or something, and yet old factories are left to decay.

WhalleyRange · Feb 9, 2008

The notorious estate that replaced the demolished housing looked like this:

Grim O'Grady · Feb 9, 2008

brilliant! great find WR!

love

Grim

EPbabe · Feb 9, 2008

WhalleyRange said:
The notorious estate that replaced the demolished housing looked like this:

Eww, this looks awful. Something similar happened to me: the street I had lived in until the age of 4 was a residential area with detached houses with gardens, and they were all demolished to give way to what we call now a "property development". :tears:

edit: Great pics, thanks for sharing them.

little stripey socks · Feb 9, 2008

Twas a scary place to go at night....

of course, since then they've demolished it all again, and now it's a shopping precinct, with an ASDA (Walmart), an Argos, and some place that sells a lot of tupperware...

This thread's given me an idea...

meat_is_murder19 · Feb 9, 2008

WhalleyRange said:
The notorious estate that replaced the demolished housing looked like this:

my gran used to live on that estate i have some pics of it somewhere ill try and dig out

Danny_ · Feb 9, 2008

WhalleyRange said:
The notorious estate that replaced the demolished housing looked like this:

And all those middle classed know it all wanker journalists wonder why Morrissey is nostalgic.

Anyone would be suspicious of progress if their childhood environment had been destroyed by modernisers like that.

Evil Legal Eagle · Feb 10, 2008

WhalleyRange said:
The notorious estate that replaced the demolished housing looked like this:

Jesus Christ, that brings back memories!!

I remember going to those flats in about 1989 to score some hash (well, I was a student after all) and being sold about a nanogram of soapbar for £13.

Never went back again!

JoyDiv007 · Feb 10, 2008

That's an interesting website.

WhalleyRange · Feb 27, 2008

Some shots of Hulme from the new Joy Division documentary.

Michelle · Feb 27, 2008

Wow, that does bring back memories! I went to Loreto College (actually it was a Convent back then!) in the late 70s, and saw those flats across the road every day!

lucky lisp · Feb 27, 2008

WhalleyRange said:
Some shots of Hulme from the new Joy Division documentary.

My aunt lived in the flats in the 70s (William Kent Cresent) The other block was called John Barrie Cresent .If i remember rightly there were 3 blocks but cant remember the name of the third ,Were the flats known as The Bullring ?

CrystalGeezer · Feb 27, 2008

WhalleyRange said:
A rare photo of the now demolished Queens Square, Hulme, 1964, the first street Morrissey lived on.

Loads of pics of old Manchester on this site, but you have to know the street names.
http://www.images.manchester.gov.uk/

Maybe when Morrissey's King he can raise the current monstrosity and rebuild these houses with architectural accuracy into million dollar flats.

lucky lisp · Feb 27, 2008

lucky lisp said:
My aunt lived in the flats in the 70s (William Kent Cresent) The other block was called John Barrie Cresent .If i remember rightly there were 3 blocks but cant remember the name of the third ,Were the flats known as The Bullring ?

Or was it Charles Barry (or Barrie )??? My memory fails me !!!

Kewpie · Feb 27, 2008

WhalleyRange said:
Some shots of Hulme from the new Joy Division documentary.

I'm also familiar with those places because I lived in Manchester for 10 months in 1989.
Two of my friends lived in a flat in Hulme, but the building was demolished in 1995.

Kewpie · Feb 27, 2008

lucky lisp said:
Or was it Charles Barry (or Barrie )??? My memory fails me !!!

What a coinsidence, my friend used to live in Charles Barrie Cresent between 1990-1993.

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