A crumbling former pub building stands as a lonely relic of a lost estate, demolished just 20-years after it was built. The Gamecock pub on the corner of Booth Street West and Boundary Lane in Hulme looks like many estate pubs.
Its high slanted roof is perhaps the only feature that distinguishes it from the concrete conformity of other 1970s flat-roofed pubs of its ilk.
That and the fact that it's still standing, having never been repurposed. Its only function has been to serve the estate that came crashing down around it some 30-years ago.
The story of Hulme in the late 20th century is familiar to those with an interest in Manchester's social history. The late 1960s and early '70s saw the construction of concrete tower blocks to accommodate the displaced communities from the '60s slum clearances.
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