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Hulme
Hulme today is a suburb of the city of Manchester
in England but it was not always so. It gets its
name from the Danish expression for a small island
surrounded by water or marshland which, in fact,
it probably was when it was first settled by the
Norse invaders from Scandinavia
Until the 18th century it remained a mainly farming
area and pictures from the time show an idyllic
scene of crops, sunshine and the country life.
The Industrial Revolution brought many factories
(known locally as mills) and the railway to Hulme,
soon followed by thousands of people. Housing
had to be built rapidly and space was limited.
The mills, the railway and the myriad of smoking
chimneys soon poisoned the air and blocked out
the sun. The number of people living in Hulme
went up 50-fold in the first half of the 19th
century and the rapid building of housing for
them meant the living conditions were dreadful,
the sanitation non-existent and deadly diseases
were rampant
By 1844 the situation had grown so serious that
Manchester Borough Council (now Manchester City
Council) had to pass a law banning further building.
However, those that were already built continued
to be lived in and many were still in use in the
20th century
In 1904 Henry Royce and Charles Stewart Rolls
met and decided to start to build cars - and chose
Hulme for their first Rolls-Royce factory though
moving to Derby shortly afterwards. Many street
names echo this period, such as Royce Road and
Rolls Crescent.
By the start of the 1960's England had begun
to remove many of the 19th century slums and consequently
most of Hulme was demolished. The style of the
1960's was for high rise living in tower blocks
and curved rows of low-rise flats (the notorious
'crescents') where motor vehicles remained on
ground level with pedestrians on concrete walkways
overhead. The buildings were generally so ugly
and inhuman that they soon became as much despised
as the slums which they replaced. And the dark
crescents bred crime and a gang culture.
They had also had one other significant drawback
- the neighbourliness of the slums had been shattered
and any sense of community with it. Those who
could afford to do so, moved out leaving poverty,
crime and drugs to fill the gap. Soon the area
became a lawless concrete jungle, the many walkways,
alleyways and dark corners making policing virtually
impossible. The area also attracted a big bohemian
squatting community and was the powerhouse behind
the Manchester music and arts scene of the eighties
and was a great place to live.
Thus, in the early 1990's, Hulme started it's
third incarnation when the 1960's architectural
disasters were demolished and replaced by conventional
two-storey houses with gardens and small two or
three storey blocks of managed apartments. Some
of these were built by Housing Associations to
provide social housing and others by private developers
for owner-occupation or private landlords. Government
and European Community grants have helped to rejuvenate
Hulme and property prices have increased rapidly
out of reach of most of the origonal community-
typical of the 'yuppification' of new millenium
Britain as it has returned to being a desirable
place to live.
Changing Hulme's reputation, gained in the 1970's
and 1980's, is a long process. New light industries
and offices are coming into the area to bring
employment back again and shopping facilities,
led by Asda, have also returned. There is a sports
complex, a medical centre, pubs and bars, improved
public transport and, whilst there is still some
gang violence and drug dealing, this is much reduced
and now is no worse than most other inner city
areas.
Hulme is only 20 minutes walk from the main financial
and shopping areas of Manchester
so it is ideal for the new generation of city
dwellers to live. It is also a similar distance
from the main University of Manchester campus
so it is a popular place for students to live
and to stay for entertainment. It is a very diverse
place both ethnically (the main groups being white
and Afro-Caribbean), in age spread and lifestyle.
Re-building and expansion is still taking place
(2004)
Manchester
Boroughs: Manchester
City Centre | Ardwick
| Baguley | Barlow
Moor | Benchill
| Blackley | Bramhall
| Burnage | Cheetham
Hill | Clayton |
Chorlton-cum-Hardy
| Crumpsall | Didsbury
| Fallowfield | Gorton
| Harpurhey | Hulme
| Levenshulme | Longsight
| Miles Platting
| Moss Side | Moston
| Newton Heath |
Northenden | Rusholme
| Sharston | Withington
| Whalley Range
| Wythenshawe
About Manchester
Manchester
is a city in the north-west of
England. The metropolitan borough of Manchester,
with a population of 422,302, lies at the heart
of a large conurbation called Greater
Manchester, with a population of 2,513,468.
Greater Manchester is also a
metropolitan county in England
established in 1974 which covers an area roughly
encompassing the conurbation of Manchester. It
is situated in North West England. It has borders
with the ceremonial counties of Cheshire (inc.
Warrington), Derbyshire, West Yorkshire, Lancashire
(inc. Blackburn with Darwen) and Merseyside. As
well as Manchester, the county includes major
centres such as Salford,
Bury, Bolton,
Stockport and Wigan.
Greater Manchester is not entirely built-up. Although
Manchester forms a conurbation along with Salford,
Trafford and Stockport,
other boroughs, such as Wigan
and Bury are clearly separate.
Towns in the
Manchester urban area include Salford,
Sale, Altrincham,
Cheadle, Stockport,
Ashton-under-Lyne,
and Oldham, Bury,
Rochdale, Stockport
and Stretford. Places
like Trafford and
Salford can be considered
part of the Manchester urban area in a way that
Wigan or Bolton
are not.
The term "Manchester" is often used
to refer to the entire conurbation, much as "London"
is usually used to mean Greater London, but many
of the constituent parts of Greater Manchester,
such as Salford, Wigan and Bolton, also have separate
identities. People from Manchester are called
Mancunians.
Manchester
removals from: Manchester
City Centre | Ardwick
| Baguley | Barlow
Moor | Benchill
| Blackley | Bramhall
| Burnage | Cheetham
Hill | Clayton |
Chorlton-cum-Hardy
| Crumpsall | Didsbury
| Fallowfield | Gorton
| Harpurhey | Hulme
| Levenshulme | Longsight
| Miles Platting
| Moss Side | Moston
| Newton Heath |
Northenden | Rusholme
| Sharston | Withington
| Whalley Range
| Wythenshawe | Towns
& places: Salford
Sale Altrincham
Cheadle Stockport
Ashton-under-Lyne
Oldham Bury
Rochdale Stockport
Stretford
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