After the slum clearances of the 60s around 300 Mancunian families made a new life for themselves in Longridge, a overspill estate built on the outskirts of Knutsford in Cheshire
Pat Marney was one of eight siblings and the first to leave home. A young mum with another baby on the way, the then 22-year-old could have been forgiven for wanting to stay close to her family in Burnage.
"My husband was still working in Manchester so I was on my own all day. I was 22-years-old, expecting and away from my family for the first time. It was heart-breaking at first." "For example, the shopkeepers served Knutsford people ahead of Longridge residents, even though they were behind them in the queue. I felt that there was a divide between more middle-class people in Knutsford town and the working-class who moved to Longridge. Those in Knutsford saw Longridge people as riff-raff."
"We go to Altrincham or Wilmslow instead. We're lucky, we now have an Aldi. People fought for a long time to get an affordable supermarket here. "With the cost of living being what it is we are seeing more and more people using our service. A lot of people who wouldn't want to use a food bank come here because there's a pride and a dignity in being able to pay for your food."
"I had the pub for 14 years. The people here are good. There was hardly ever any trouble It's a good place to live." "The main problem now is Longridge is not big enough," Lee Marney, Pat's son, said. "We need houses for the next generation.
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