Young boy sitting on a council estate garden wall 1982

The Boulevard, Buttershaw Estate, Bradford, West Yorkshire UK 1982.

May 22nd 2017 sees the BFI release a 2k restored version of the original Super 16mm film of Rita Sue and Bob Too, by the late Andrea Dunbar, directed by Alan Clarke.

Filmed on the Buttershaw Council estate in 1987 where Andrea was raised, these black and white images from 1982 portray the gritty surroundings of a typical northern working class sink estate.

The Boulevard flats featured heavily in the film, although most of them were empty at the time and awaiting redevelopment. They are now gone.