I knew it would be bad here but I thought "its my own house", I went to use the toilet, and there were no pipes. I've reported that to the council seven times and they've not come to fix it.
What I'm worried about is the baby. I can hear the rats scratching at night. They've only got to gnaw through that wood, and that'll be it.
"The council think "you're an unmarried mother — we'll shove you where we want to shove you". They give you no choice because you're on your own with a baby. But until they mend the toilet, I've no intentions of paying my rent' Pat Cook, an unmarried mother recently moved into a rat-infested Lower Broughton house. in habitants in an otherwise empty terrace.
things like this ?* ealed the decision.
frame and struck her on the head, 'For the last twelve months, every night from 9 o'clock till 11 o'clock bricks are thrown at the door all the time. We can't ever leave the house together. Holidays are nil. We used to go away for 15 days every year, but now we're too frightened to go. We've not had a holiday for three years."
Retired railway man, Bill Morrison and his wife Edna. They are the only 'You come home and you sit here at night on your own while the kids go out and play in the streets. You look around, and you think "How did lever come down to - Margaret Higgins, divorced mother of three. She has lived in Lower Broughton for 5 years, and her electricity has been cut off for the past 6 months, Because of damp only her kitchen and living room are usable. "We've got to wait until the council decide they are going to move us. If the council said to me: "you can go into standard property with hot water and a bath" I would definitely pay the rent arrears. But while they say to me: "You'll stay in substandard property", they've got no chance at all. I'm not bringing my kids up to live like this and to know this all their life."
Lilly Parker, wife of a builders' labourer, and mother of seven. They were moved into Lower Broughton 4 years ago — it was their second slum house.
The Parkers were one of 88 tenants who took Salford council to court and obtained an order requiring them to carry out repairs. The councii has app Last summer one of the Parkers' children was injured when an upstairs window - which they had continually asked to be repaired - fall out of its "A lot of lads go in through the rafters and just go in and rob the houses... One night there was some rope hanging down from the ceiling and I was cutting it. because she wanted a skipping rope, and it just blew up it was electric wire.. You got nothing to do, do you, you've got to go into these houses." - Lower Broughton kids, whose "playground' is the mare of condemned housus.
Red Weekly 14 Noverber 1974 Page
children was viciously set upon by the police sponsored a meeting between Moss ives on the Manchester Council, Lahour councillors Padgett (vice-chairperson of the housing committee) and Talbot faced 60 irate tenants