This is the third dip into a collection which recorded life in Hulme and Moss Side during the house clearances of the 1960s and 70s.
They were taken by Roger Shelley and they are a powerful visual description of communities who continued to work and play as around them the wrecking ball wiped away a century and a bit of houses and workshops.I have to say I had almost forgotten “the rag and bone man” who went door to door collecting the broken, the discarded and the out of fashion household goods.
Today it’s a man in a van, often as not only interested in scrap metal and who announces his presence with a bout of loud music and still occasionally with a call for “any old iron” which would have been recognised in the streets by characters from a novel by Charles Dickens.
And Roger captured the scene as it played out in the 1960s.Location; Hulme and Moss Side
Pictures; from the collection of Roger Shelley, 1960s and 70s.
roger.. not robert lol
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