Saturday 26 May 2012

Never Mind The Crime & The Depravity, Look At The Art Deco Cinema!

Owen Hatherley (author of Militant Modernism; A Guide to the New Ruins of Great Britain) in CiF on the wonders of Wythenshawe:
The second-largest council estate in the country, after Becontree in East London, it's best known of late for three media appearances – Sarah Ferguson's The Duchess on the Estate; Shameless, for which it provided many of the sets; and a photograph of David Cameron on the stump, with a hooded youth making gun signs behind him.
In appearance, though, Wythenshawe doesn't correspond much to stereotype.
Really? Are you sure about that, Owen? Are you really, really sure?

3 comments:

David Thompson said...

Not too long ago, Mr Hatherley was telling us that vaguely alternative pop music is nigh impossible to make without unconditional benefits, a grant, a squat and a subsidised spell at art school.

So you mustn’t doubt his judgement.

the man who fell back to bed said...

I lived in wythenshawe from 1985 through to 1994.

it's not quite the a**ehole of manchester (longsight takes that title) but it's close.

JuliaM said...

"Not too long ago, Mr Hatherley was telling us..."

Ahhh, I thought the name was familiar...

"it's not quite the a**ehole of manchester (longsight takes that title) but it's close"

Sadly, so many areas are now like this.