Whole streets were disappearing. I hoped to capture some trace of the people who lived there
Built to house the families who moved to Manchester during the Industrial Revolution, the tightly-packed terraced streets were classed as slums when Baker arrived with her camera in 1961. The government began to clear slums in the 1930s, resuming again soon after the World War Two. Between 1955 and 1975, around 1.3 million homes were demolished.