Don't miss a thing by getting the latest from the Manchester Evening News sent direct to your inbox Hopton Court was once the future.
The flats, and others like it, were the concrete answer to the problem of inner city housing, part of utopian vision of post-war life.
Now the six storey tower block is a relic. Most of the council flats that replaced Hulme's terraced streets lasted just over 20 years.
Places like Hulme Crescents fell first to decay, and then to the bulldozer, after families left and were replaced by young bohemians.
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