#it's quite depressing that this perception of council estates continues to this day

[delightfullyatomicfest]

This is interesting - from someone born and raised in Speke, though 10 years younger than Paul and George.

Paul and George don’t seem to have had such a negative attitude towards the area as the author of this blog, but it perhaps gives a bit of insight about why Paul always had such a chip on his shoulder about class.

‘In the absence of any community identity, people from Speke, and all the other Liverpool estates, were perceived differently. In a time of full employment, people living on estates were not accorded the ‘working class’ designation, but were thought of in the then unused demographic of ‘underclass’. Like the estates themselves geographically, people from the estates were regarded as ‘peripheral’, not part of the mainstream. You came from ‘an estate’. It didn’t matter which one, we were all tarnished with the same brush.’

#Speke #it's quite depressing that this perception of council estates continues to this day