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The 'forgotten' Greater Manchester overspill estate that pulls together in the worst of times

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Sign up to the MySalford newsletter and don't miss a thing happening in and around the city In the 1950s Little Hulton became home to over a thousand families who had been moved from inner city areas as part of the post-war slum clearance programme.

Once a Lancashire village of around 8,000 people with coal mining in its blood, by 1962, over 3000 new homes had been built here for an influx of Salfordians.

So-called overspill estates like Little Hulton were intended as suburbs that would improve the standard of living for working people, with green space and a planned sense of community.

Billy Ramsbottom, 69, was part of the original migration. He was just six when his family moved to Little Hulton. “We moved in 1957, I remember coming down

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