In 1995, after a local school had been destroyed in an arson attack, local MP Roy Hattersley dubbed the Manor Estate ‘the worst estate in Britain’ –quite a comedown for an estate which had once been one of Sheffield’s showpieces. The truth, as ever, was more complex but the reality of decline on the now troubled estate was undeniable.
The Estate in the sixties (?): the image shows that the open layout of the estate could be bleak in its exposed setting
For those that moved to the greenfield estate from the slums in the 1920s and 1930s, it was a very different story: (1)
It were great – corn fields and then there were a farm further over and horses – we used to play with horses and run around fields with horses and there were a brook – we used to go paddling down in the brook
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Old School Garden 