Mick Hartley

How we lived then.

In early 1973 Daniel Meadows and Martin Parr, studying photography together at Manchester Polytechnic, decided to photograph a typical Salford street of terraced houses before urban regeneration knocked them all into history. They chose June Street, where all the houses were still occupied, and photographed the interior of every home accompanied by Linda McDougall, a BBC researcher armed with a tape recorder. The residents articulated their worries about being moved into flats in a tower block – mainly, the isolation and loss of community. The result was broadcast in May 1973 on Look North, the teatime magazine programme. Meadows and Parr were paid £10.

From Magnum:

[Photos: Martin Parr and Daniel Meadows]

Many of the photos, and the story, feature in Daniel Meadows' new book, Now and Then: England 1970-2015.