Rural Hulme ……..

We all have our own vision of Hulme in Manchester.

For many it will be of those rows of terraced houses many of which were already getting on a bit when Queen Victoria celebrated her jubilee in 1887.

Or the blocks of deck access properties which replaced them in the 1970s, only to be torn down again for a new development two decades later.

But walk a little off Old Birley Street just past George Parr Road and there is a little haven of wilderness which gives out on to the lawns of the Brooks Building.

It may not seem much to anyone who lives in the countryside, but it is still a space of wild unkempt bushes and trees.

And long may it remain so.

Location; Hulme

Pictures; Rural Hulme and the Brooks Building, Bonsall Street, 2023, from the collection of Andrew Simpson