ABSTRACT
Goldfish, making love and washing clothes – all part of life below deck on the giant Hulme Estate, Manchester, in the 1970s. And according to Housing Officers of Manchester City Council and other agents for the landlord, this steamy life style voluntarily chosen by tenants was the biggest contributor to damp and dreadful housing conditions. How remarkable the influence claimed for these specks of humanity in the interstices of a megastructure of concrete and glass.
