Hulme

When I was a student in Manchester I lived in a place called Hulme, a sprawling concrete estate of industrially produced deck-access housing that had been declared unfit for families in the mid-70s and had subsequently descended into oddly bohemian squalor.

Mark Kermode: How to make an intelligent blockbuster and not alienate people 2011

It will all appear 'an island of incomparable bliss, dwelt by strange shapes labelled' Pound, '' Joyce, '' Weaver, '' Hulme'….

'Nothing But a Writer' Bradbury, Malcolm 1991

In Manchester, 433 parents made William Hulme's grammar school, at which only 120 places are available, their first choice.

One in six children will miss out on first-choice secondary school 2011

By the time I arrived in Hulme in the early 80s it was full of students who loved it, because the rent was incredibly cheap and nobody paid it anyway – the council couldn't evict you for non-payment because that would just make you homeless and Hulme was the place to which they sent homeless people after they'd been thrown out of everywhere else.

Mark Kermode: How to make an intelligent blockbuster and not alienate people 2011

I've had an extremely sad email from David Hulme, who has been a member of the Bowmen of Bruntwood archery group in Stockport for some 40 years.

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The architecture of Hulme was a strange mix of 60s sci-fi futurism and bleak eastern European uniformity, the kind of place JG Ballard had nightmares about.

Mark Kermode: How to make an intelligent blockbuster and not alienate people 2011

I've had an extremely sad email from David Hulme, who has been a member of the Bowmen of Bruntwood archery group in Stockport for some 40 years.

Simon Hoggart's week: Changing the gender agenda 2011

Mugging was a fairly common occurrence in Hulme, as was burglary and the occasional assault by packs of wild dogs.

Mark Kermode: How to make an intelligent blockbuster and not alienate people 2011

Last month in Stern Critique, which considered Bjorn Lomborg's critique of the Stern Review, the observation of Mike Hulme, director of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, U.K. that activists and the media have pushed climate alarmism so ...

DeLong, Dasgupta, and Stern, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

All he had to do was answer a few very simple questions about the state of his flat and his experience of living in Hulme.

Mark Kermode: How to make an intelligent blockbuster and not alienate people 2011