Hulme Crescents

Hulme Crescents

The Crescents - are ingrained with urban myth and folklore. A rent free bohemian paradise occupied by free thinkers, musicians and artists or the worst housing stock in Europe, crime ridden and unfit for families? Certainly a bit of both but to those who knew them, they certainly have a lasting impact.

Here's another design, recently retrived from our archives and re-released for those of you who enjoyed the positive aspects of Hulme's streets in the sky.

'Hulme Crescents was a large housing development in the Hulme district of Manchester, England. It was the largest public housing development in Europe, encompassing 3,284 deck-access homes and capacity for over 13,000 people, but was marred by serious construction and design errors. Demolition of the Crescents began in 1993, 21 years after it was constructed in 1972.

The Crescents were described by the Architects' Journal as "Europe's worst housing stock... hideous system-built deck-access block which gave Hulme its unsavoury reputation." The Hulme Crescents had implications for new housing in Manchester and signalled the end of the streets in the sky idea popular throughout the 1960s and 1970s in the United Kingdom.' (nicked from Wikipedia)

Image courtesy of Matthew Steele.

Size Guide

Centimeters

	XS	S	M	L	XL	2XL	3XL	4XL	5XL
Height	171	175	179	183	189	195	195	195	195
Chest	86	93	99	104	116	129	135	142	162
Waist	71	76	81	89	99	112	119	130	137

Chest: Measure all round your chest just below your armpits.

Waist: Measure round your waistline, where your trousers would button up.

Height: Your natural height.

If you fall between the sizes, go for the larger of the two.

Product Specification

Certified Organic Cotton t-shirt, 155g/m2. Wash cool, hang dry. GM free. Not tested on animals. Does not contain animal-derived products. Printed with low waste printing tech. Made in a renewable energy powered factory audited for a wide range of social and sustainability criteria.