Just because I think I am not the only one who finds this a fascinating picture; I thought I could post it. It is undated, but at the end of 1800. Maybe 1880, 1890 or so.
It’s a picture you would not be able to see these days:
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Fella looks like Luka Modric.
Even the surroundings look like where he’s from.
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I was thinking of starting a thread on British social history but figured anything related could just as well go in here. I’m currently engrossed in a book by Mark Hodkinson called ; 'No One Round Here Reads Tolstoy (Memoirs Of A Working Class Reader). Being of the same age as the author and sharing similar tastes , the book is (for me) a goldmine of recent British historical cultural and political references.
The piece I thought was worth sharing is a BBC poem/film from 2011 from the current Poet Laureate Simon Armitage. The subject is the imminent demolition of a vast estate in Rochdale built only 25 years earlier and inspired by the French modernist architect Le Corbusier. For reasons , his utopian developments didn’t translate particularly well onto the South Pennine Moors.
In two parts , each of 12 minutes.
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I read that too and, like you, I found a lot that resonated. I’m the same vintage and recognised a lot of it.
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I was actually at the same Stone Roses gig at the International in Manchester that he mentions (In reality a dingy little club run by some dude from North Wales , who let us in for nothing.) , so our paths actually crossed ! 
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