A video, now over half a century old, shows families living on a decaying housing estate while children play in its rubble-strewn streets. The footage shot in Lower Broughton, Salford, in April 1974, was part of a news broadcast for ITN. Now part of the Getty archives, the video highlights the living conditions for many families living in slum housing up until the mid-1970s. Families were forced to live in mouldy rooms infested with slugs, cockroaches and rats. At the same time, children played

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