1940s housing in Burnage
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1940s housing in Burnage
Image: © John Rostron Taken: 11 Dec 2013
My parents lived in the top flat here in the early 1940s. My mother was evacuated to Blackpool to give birth in 1942, but I lived here for the first few years of my life. These flats are typical of much of the council housing built in the 1940s in Burnage, and much of Manchester. The windows and doors have been renewed, but the brickwork is just about as I remember it.
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Image Location
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53.424342
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