even in 1975 it wasn't nice
Even in 1965 (that must have been about the time that I recall we shopped in the "old fashioned" Sainsbury's there) it wasn't "nice".
It was just about OK, no more
It was nice in 1920 something when my dad (and his Parents) moved there, but that was to an isolated road of private dwellings.
But when they surrounded it with 10,000 council houses in whenever it was, it ceased to be nice.
It was safe to walk the streets after dark though :-)
tim