The 'concrete washing machine' estate where Manchester's homeless wound up
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manchestereveningnews.co.ukFor 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'.
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