Described as "paradise" by one former resident, four high-rise tower-blocks that overlooked great swathes of south Manchester for nearly 50-years were brought crashing down.
Named after birds – Falcon, Osprey, Raven and Eagle – Old Trafford was once dominated by four 'brutalist' high-rise towers built in the late '60s and early '70s.
Alongside three other towers on the Tamworth Estate that still survive today – Clifford, Pickford and Grafton – they were known as the 'Seven Sisters'.
Not to be confused with Rochdale's 'Seven Sisters' that, for now, remain standing, construction on Old Trafford's 'Seven Sisters' began in the 1960s as part of a project to clear Manchester's slums.
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