Many of Manchester's uprooted families lived there when their old homes and streets were demolished
For the families uprooted from their close-knit terraced streets of inner-city Manchester, it must have felt like walking into the future. With its 'washing machine' porthole windows, lurid plastic walls and walkways in the sky, the Southgate estate was unlike anything the north west had seen before.
READ MORE:The rise and fall of Grand Central - from post-industrial wasteland to THE place to be in 1990s StockportDesigned by the esteemed modernist architect Sir James Stirling, the estate drew inspiration from the grand Georgian terraces of Bath and Edinburgh. Housing a population of 6,000 people in 1,500 homes, it was first commissioned in 1967 but only completed a decade later, the Manchester Evening News reported back in 2020.
Moreover, the decision to install an oil-fired central heating system resulted in tenants being unable to afford to heat their homes following the oil crisis of the early 1970s.
The publication highlighted that the estate was 'largely the victim of an original budget that was far too low to create sufficient quality for such a high-density scheme'. It further suggested that had Southgate endured, it would have become 'one of the major monuments to this significant period and a key site of architectural pilgrimage in northwest England'.
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