from 'barren wasteland' to Manchester powerhouse

To some it's Eastlands , to others, it will always be Bradford - but this area of east Manchester has seen an incredible transformation over the last 25-years. The area didn't only acquire a new name but was completely transformed.

READ MORE: "Do you want a Flake in that, love?": The rise and fall of Manchester's Boddingtons brewery Coal has been mined in Bradford since at least the early 17th century, and when clay was also discovered, a brickworks was also built. The village's proximity to the Ashton Canal and the River Medlock also helped it play a key role in the industrial revolution and factories including cotton mills and Bradford Ironworks provided hundreds of jobs.

But by the mid-20th century, what was once Manchester's industrial heartland was decimated by successive economic recessions and increased global industrialisation, and subsidence caused by mining at the colliery was blamed for damage to local buildings.In 1962, 11 council houses were so severely damaged they had to be demolished.

Despite some sources claiming the area had been nicknamed 'Eastlands' before, newspaper archives show no mention of the term until the 1990s, coinciding with plans for its redevelopment.View gallery Before the project even began, there was more good news. Manchester City FC signed a deal to move the club from their home at Maine Road, Moss Side, to the new City of Manchester Stadium, following the Commonwealth Games in 2002.

Costing nearly £2 million it was the tallest sculpture in the UK, but the spiky artistic statement was beset with structural problems. After losing a number of its spikes it was removed in 2009 and melted down for scrap metal, recouping a mere £17,000 for the city's taxpayers.

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