A housing estate remembered for the way "every one looked after each other" met a sad end as part an extensive programme of city-wide demolition.
Brook House was a housing estate made up of over 400 flats, built in West Gorton shortly before World War Two broke out. Early newspaper references to the estate can be found in an advertisement in the Manchester Evening News dated October 1939, advertising vacant shop premises at "the new block of flats known as 'Brook House,' in Gorton Lane".
Impressive in size, the blocks of four-storey flats were part of a self-contained estate in what was then a heavily industrialised part of the city. Separated by Gardner Street, a neighbouring but smaller group of flats was built at the same time called Surrey and Hartland Gardens.
