Hulme - City Challenge

[@jordansale1465]

Used this in GCSE and now using this in A2 Geography- sick!

[@bernardmcmahon5377]

Remember it all well, I worked round there, socialised round there, it’s unbelievable how quick time has passed

[@TheLucreziia]

The original crescent shape was inspired by the Royal Crescents of Bath in Summerset built between 1767 and 1774 and unlike Hulme still stands to this day.

[@bernardmcmahon351]

I remember them being built, they used cranes on railroad tracks shaped like the crescent, I worked nearby as a young man on moss side ‘town centre redevelopment’ then I remember most of that being demolished. Nowadays I’m not sure what the answer is to fair, decent housing but it’s not 30 story tower blocks in media city charging over 1200 a month,, young families need support and help, there is enough money in this country to make sure everyone gets a fair deal

[@strawberry942]

We watched this in A level geography today

[@daviemac9925]

We got lucky the first time the bulldozes came for us, they gave us Hornchurch Court, it was lovely. Then they stuck all the orange boxes and multi storey car parks round it. You know when they took the deck flats (pink flats) down, they took the asbestos out first, I remember the big blue parcels, then there was nothing left but the concrete shells. They were built and we didn't know it was asbestos they were using. Lovely days looking back, and I can still remember nearly all the neighbours from most of the block. It's a shame they destroyed Hulme for ever or "Oom" as the locals call it. From Hulme All Blessings Flow.

[@charlesdehavilland2437]

Amazing - the wording in this video is full of huge inaccuracies.

[@assimonem1189]

Them red benches at the end 4.22 lasted a few days before they were nicked and reinstalled in people's flats. Funny.

[@perky26hughes]

Assimonem Wonder where they are now? Hopefully they're still being used somewhere- what a great talking piece they'd be!

[@jackreid5970]

Are you from there?

[@juleswombat5309]

I thought in the 1960s, it was rows and rows of terraced houses. Considered unmaintainable damp 'slums' by the mid 1960s. So these were all demolished replaced by those Hulme Crescents in the early 1970s. The 1990s development are more in keeping with the original low density housing terraces, but more attractive and maintainable. Not sure what the answer is for mass housing.

[@immaterialimmaterial5195]

In spite of it all, the Crescents were of cultural and artistic significance in giving a haven to a wide range of creative types during the 70's and 80's. There was a lot going on in and around Hulme in tHoSe dAzE!!!

[@georgewarner2871]

Thanks helped with GCSEs geography

[@assimonem1189]

From the home of the first Rolls- Royce Built

[@Howdy-y5i]

They should have left the crescents as they were. deeply missed now. John Nash,Charles Barry, Robert Adam and William Kent.

[@amgonnafartinyaface]

As much as I miss em, cos of all the memories - They needed to come down, they were a state towards the end.

[@geoffedwards-tb4kp]

HASSINE83 In Manchester no one ever called them crescents they were known across the city as the "BULLRINGS".

[@jackreid5970]

@@geoffedwards-tb4kp when abouts did you live there?

[@geoffedwards-tb4kp]

@@jackreid5970 lived in Manchester whole life, North though, blackley , Moston. Lived Whalley range for a year in 88.

[@jackreid5970]

@@geoffedwards-tb4kp Thanks, looking for people from Hulme mostly, preferably the Crescents, for book resurch.

[@slayerrocks2]

Would not have happened without European grants. I grew up there.

[@stretchmorgan]

Rubbish. The houses built are very pokey, not all that nice to live in & gardens neither large or easy to work.

[@juliepownall2000]

@@stretchmorgan no they are not we live in one large dining kitchen and lounge etc and the garden is quite big ☺️

[@leogowing9101]

This is so useful of geography, but geography aside this is actually a really positive video hahaha :)

[@GravelGorauGwynedd]

Why would you use Oasis as a theme when Hulme was well gone before they existed?

[@gol4695]

Probably the lyrics

[@sandrafinbar]

Don't look back in anger......the lyrics. And I think Oasis are from nearby Manchester.

[@leanmachene]

smashing stuff

[@herrforehead]

My geography class enjoyed

[@0000Kickass00000]

cheers laura, helped me for gcses u lad

[@Csalmon]

LooooooooooooooooooooL

[@tlufs59]

what a propaganda piece... no mention or explanation of the role of the resistance to the initial City Challenge plan by the residents and tenantsof Hulme; or of bodies such as the tenant led, Hulme Tenant Participation Project, in why the 1990s regeneration was more succesful than that of the 1960s. Although, all this time on there are many who would argue about what is meant by success, particularly after much of the new build Hulme has ended up in the hands of private owners and landlords.

[@sarahzulk]

Very good argument. However, currently in my A Level Geography course, we do explore that these schemes do not benefit local people as much as they do for affluent outsiders such as foreign investors.

[@Dodge589]

i will never forget the BULLRING were we got weed from