The History of Britain's Most Notorious Slum Development

Hulme is today one of Manchester's most dynamic, forward thinking and exciting places to live... but it never used to be like this. At the start of the 20th century it was one of Britain's poorest slum areas - row after row of poorly built red-brick terraced housing to house the city's most deprived inhabitants. In the middle of the century it was redeveloped with modernist architecture - famously Hulme Crescents - that were supposed to provide a utopian version of a working class community. But these deck access, concrete developments degenerated into new slums, before slowly evolving into bohemian, quasi-anarchist neighbourhoods where the new wave of Manchester's music scene could germinate. It's quite a story, and its quite a place.

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