In 1974, photographer Chris Hunt documented the lives of working-class families in Beeton Grove, Longsight – a small terraced street just a couple of miles from Manchester city centre. Chris was fascinated by his neighbours – a diverse mix of English, Irish, Pakistani and Cypriot families. After a year living on Beeton Grove, Chris approached everyone on the street with a request to photograph and interview them about their everyday lives. In addition to the portraits and images of family members in their homes, Chris captured them at work, out shopping, and in the nearby pubs and social clubs of 1970s Manchester and Salford.

A selection of Hunt’s Beeton Grove series was exhibited at Bury Art Museum in 2023 as part of the BCA touring exhibition ‘Life in the North | 1970s-1980s’.