It's now a thriving modern day city - but these striking photographs show it in a completely different light
manchestereveningnews.co.ukSome would have graced the cover of a Smiths album perfectly. They capture a city in turmoil and the people living through it with grit and humour.
A tanned young woman in a classic pink dress with black going out shoes sweeping the cobbles of a Salford street with a broom in 1969.
With her sixties-style big blonde hair she is beautiful and natural. But she was not posing - just cleaning outside her home with the Poet's Corner pub in the background of the Lower Broughton scene.
A pristine looking red-bricked Church Inn is pictured in Ellor Street in 1976. The traditional boozer proudly survives next to the city's brave new world - high rise blocks - and a plot of cleared land. READ MORE: Stockport's oldest pub to reopen after lying vacant for over a decade Pictured in atmospheric black and white a rain-drenched street in 1971 looking like a Coronation Street set with a solitary woman walking on a pavement shining from the downpour.
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