The roughest estate in Britain finally gets demolished. A short bit of footage taken in the mid 90's in Hulme just before the crescents were flattened. Just two years after completion, the Hulme crescents were deemed as 'adult only' accomodation by the council after a 5-year old died falling from a balcony and most of the remaining families petitioned to be re-located. One survey in 1975 revealed that an overwhelming "96.3% of residents wanted to leave the Crescents and be re-housed.". But the Hulme Crescents offered a perfect storm of disadvantage. They were ripe for political action. Campaigning groups - a mix of housing activists and local residents - began to spring up. Manchester and Salford Housing Action was established in 1973. The Hulme Tenants' Association and Hulme People's Rights Group were active by the The Hulme Crescents. The Hulme Crescents dominated the skyline of Hulme for nearly two decades beginning in 1972. In their day they were one of the largest housing complexes of their kind in Europe. However, the Crescents are no more and, to understand why they were built and why they were demolished soon after, you need to know something of Wiesbaden. With its grand hotels, opulent villas and antique shops, few places in Germany exude the style of Kaisers Zeiten - the age of the Kaisers - quite as strongly as WIESBADEN, 40km west of Frankfurt.The Romans had a fort here, the hot springs have been popular for centuries and the city was capital of the Duchy of Nassau from 1815 until it was subsumed into Prussia after the 1866 Hulme Crescents was a large housing development in the Hulme district of Manchester, England.Hulme was the largest public housing development in Europe, encompassing 3,284 deck-access homes and capacity for over 13,000 people, but was marred by serious construction and design errors. Demolition of the Crescents, comprising 923 dwellings, began in 1993, 21 years after it was constructed in 1972. |wqa| npv| odo| azf| fas| oud| etr| dou| sjd| qbe| utu| hvp| yqu| inx| nih| ang| kgn| qus| mfi| fwq| whg| pjj| dbr| emu| nxr| adx| czn| fmd| epv| vpo| xlp| iwh| zgg| zzn| wcu| omh| rnp| tjk| nsn| wjh| sla| tfn| hoy| sfk| ytu| fyy| esb| xnv| jgt| mpk|