Research on displaced populations across international borders has gained a lot of attention in recent decades, but research on internal displacement has been overlooked. The hidden narratives of Manchester’s slum clearance in the 1960s remain to be revealed, along with the entire neighbourhoods that were uprooted from their homes.
Over the past year, I have taken a particular interest in the North Manchester slums as my own family lived there until the end of WW2. They survived on what little money my Great Grandfather and his eldest sons could bring home from their work at London Road Station (now known as Piccadilly Station). But who were those residing in these slums?
