The secret history of our streets BBC2

[Mosaic]

Did anyone else watch this? I can wholeheartedly recommend it for the history-lovers on AB but I also thought it was a very good piece of television. Felt a bit sorry for the old councillor chap - but he had it coming IMO.

[mccfluff]

when was it on?

[Mosaic]

9.00pm last night, BBC2

[djwepg]

Lovely programme. So sad all those close knit communities were destroyed

[MarkRae]

[craft1948]

I watched this on iplayer after seeing this thread.................absolutely dreadful the way a community was destroyed.
I was born at my nan's house which was later classified as a slum (there are flats there now) and remember it as a wonderful place. Living conditions were not marvellous with outside toilets and the old tin bath, but everyone looked out for each other and I had loads of aunties and uncles around every day. My nan's house was spotless, with the black-leaded range and her front yellow-stoned doorstep.

[Mosaic]

Craft, I remember similar events taking place around me as a child - and I expect most people posting on here can....it beggars belief that these communities were destroyed, and I found it very telling that someone explained why the modern flats become dodgy...ie even if you buy one, you can't do it up as much as you'd like - so you move out and away.
I can also recall the zeitgeist, which was absolutely against anything 'old-fashioned'. I believe a lot of this demolition was done across the country simply to build 'fashionable' structures rather than for any good reason.
That, and the Poulson effect, hem-hem.

BTW what happened to Smilingcrow's thread on the Freemasons?