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28.06.2024 - 17:23 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
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.
The Southgate estate was dreamt up as a radical solution to the slum clearances in Manchester and Liverpool, and was one of the final grand experiments in 20th century social housing. However, it stood for only 15 years before being flattened.
In the 1950s and '60s, the slum clearances in Manchester and Liverpool led to the creation of 'new towns' and 'overspill estates'. Many displaced Mancunians were relocated to tower blocks and council estates such as Wythenshawe, Langley in Middleton or Darn Hill in Heywood, while others ended up in Southgate, in the Cheshire new town of Runcorn.
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Designed 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.
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The estate comprised flat-roofed terraced housing and deck-access apartment blocks, all interconnected by 'streets in the sky' walkways that bypassed the traffic and provided access to the nearby shopping centre, Runcorn Shopping City. The apartments were
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