On our toughest estates, generations pass with the same experience of worklessness and educational failure.
Conner Chapman and Shaun Thomas play Arbor and Swifty, two lads who live in the tough estates of Bradford, leading an almost bucolic existence of hand-to-mouth survival.
Conner Chapman and Shaun Thomas play Arbor and Swifty, two lads who live in the tough estates of Bradford, leading an almost bucolic existence of hand-to-mouth survival.
I was in a gang, everyone was, we were always fighting and there was always this feeling that this was a hard place to live.' Howard Parker says that the Ford, in the Eighties, was one of the toughest estates on the Wirral.
McCall's parents split and he made up for his size when he moved to one of Leeds' toughest estates and played for pub sides by the age of 14.
He describes Bushbury Hill as a "tough estate, but people are very close.
They'd been impressed by Off the Endz, Agbaje's second Royal Court play, about twentysomethings from a tough estate facing tough choices.
Brought up on a tough estate in Roehampton, Stagg's childhood nickname was Monk because he was happier reading and painting than hanging out.
The idea, incidentally, that a short-ish fellow wearing a silly blue hat might inflict any damage on a 6ft 4in professional sportsman from a tough estate in Peckham is fairly difficult to believe.
Adam Rickwood came from a complex background - he had never known his father, he was brought up on a tough estate in Burnley, Lancashire, and family members had been in trouble with the law.
