The last days of the Greater Manchester estate dubbed 'worst slum in Britain'

A series of images taken of a forgotten slum estate in Greater Manchester capture a community surviving in squalid conditions as late as the mid 1970s.

The still images were taken from ITN news reports shot in the Spring and Summer of 1974 in Lower Broughton, Salford.

The news report highlighted the conditions people in the area were still living in seven years after the council had made a compulsory purchase order on 1,600 houses in 1967.

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The demolition was deferred for seven years, and despite spending over £280,000 on repairs in the interim, the homes were still in the most "dreadful state".

Rats, rising damp, leaking roofs, peeling walls and floors with large holes were some of the problems people were forced to endure.

Outside the homes, the whole area resembled a classic slum. Rows of crumbling back-to-back terraces, alleyways heaped with rubbish, blocked drains on potholed streets strewn with debris from torn down buildings on which children played.

With 1,000 of the properties still occupied by the time of the report in 1974, many tenants complained of suffering health conditions like bronchitis.

Described in one of the news reports as "the worst slums in Britain" here are some of the most startling images taken from the ITN news footage.

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