‘Women, Children and Loitering Men’: A Glimpse at Manchester’s Slums in the 1960s – Feature Shoot

‘Women, Children and Loitering Men’: A Glimpse at Manchester’s Slums in the 1960s – Feature Shoot

The streets of the Manchester slums, in which children played on concrete roads and their parents watched as terraced homes were razed to the ground in favor of new developments, became in the 1960s and two decades following like a home away from home for

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The streets of the Manchester slums, in which children played on concrete roads and their parents watched as terraced homes were razed to the ground in favor of new developments, became in the 1960s and two decades following like a home away from home for British street photographer Shirley Baker (1932-2014), whose middle class family owned a furniture store in Salford.