Lowry's Town has Gone

Description

A study of Salford, comprising six chapters. The introductory chapter includes quotations from the artist L. S. Lowry, and comments by others on his representation of people and place. The second chapter concerns housing conditions and health, and draws on a number of reports commissioned in the 1930s. Chapter Three concerns money, and includes sections on the tick credit system, pawnshops, moneylenders and the workhouse. The fourth chapter describes entertainment and leisure in the town, with sections on drink, Band of Hope meetings, May Day celebrations and the cinema. This chapter also includes statistics concerning leisure time activities in Salford in 1980, a transcript of a conversation the collector had with a Salford woman in a local Old People's Home, and photocopies of photographs and paintings showing examples of Salford's housing, corner shops, industrial buildings, workers and street scenes in the first three decades of the twentieth century. Chapter Five contains some general comments on redevelopment, slum clearance and Compulsory Purchase Order procedures, whilst the sixth chapter concentrates on redevelopment in Salford and includes the transcript of a conversation between the collector and a Salford man living in a high rise tower block, interviewed in February 1980. Photocopies of photographs of slum clearance, demolition and Development Areas in the town are included.

Metadata

Identifier xz1p76bs
IRN 410146
Class Mark LAVC/SRP/2/110
Level File
Type of Record Archives - ISAD(G)
Peristent Link http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/xz1p76bs
Collection(s) Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Category Archive
Parent Record Undergraduate Dissertations
Creator(s) Dixon, Beverley Anne
Date 1980
Size and Medium 83 unbound typed/ms. leaves.

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