Thanks for posting this.
I was born in 1961, in Stockport, just 6 miles south of Manchester and this exactly how I remember it from my childhood. Sadly, I didn't own a camera of my own until 1973/4 and even though I has a load of negs / slides taken in the mid-seventies and more recently, these vanished when my ex and I went our separate ways. It was far from glamorous in the NW of England at that time but none of us had anything much by way of valued possessions - so it was a pretty level playing field.
We were lucky as both my parents had jobs and worked hard. I never wanted for anything but, if I'm honest, I knew very little about what was out there that was to be had by those who had luxuries in life. My interest in photography - inherited from my dad and reading the school's copies of Nat Geo - was the origins of my ongoing interest in photography. I'm sure I'm not alone as, these scenes were probably emblematic of most of working-class Britain.
