It was a housing estate that promised a new beginning, but would meet a sad end - abandoned, falling to ruin, eventually bulldozed.
It's 15 years since the Gorsey Bank estate in Cheadle Heath, Stockport was demolished, eight years after the last residents moved out. The site - on the bank of the River Mersey - is now occupied by the Aurora Business Park, with few reminders that the area was once labelled 'Stockport's worst', and plagued with vandalism, burglaries and arson attacks.
Gorsey Bank, with its semis, terraces and recreation ground, dated back to 1935, but by the early 1970s, life there had deteriorated to the point where residents called for the council to pull it down.
