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Here is one that has been baffling to say the least, when we left the Daneliegh flats in Crumpsall at the end of 1977 we moved to Harpurhey, on the new Hadfield estate, soon became known as the ‘200’ estate (so called after the ‘200’ pubic house which was built on the estate, commemorating Boddingtons 1778 – 1978 ) anyway, we use to play quite a lot on the weird flats on Lathbury Road / Monsal Road, they had a very unusual design, very unusual almost like a krypton factor puzzle or more sinister muggers ally, with walk ways with a labyrinth of passages. As you can image this was fantastic fun for kids and even though we played on there for several years I never fully knew my way around it.

These flats had a couple of names, the official ‘Turkey Lane’ Flats, another Lathbury Road Flats, the most common name ‘White Flats’ and some locals and all the kids called them Lego-land after the large white block style design… these flats wasn’t built for long before they was demolished in the mid to late 1980s as a bad idea, but for some very strange reason I can not find any reference to them on the internet and certainly no pictures at all anywhere, does anyone have any pictures or stories of these flats, would love to hear of any?