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Mosaic | 13:12 Thu 07th Jun 2012 | History
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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.
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when was it on?
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9.00pm last night, BBC2
Lovely programme. So sad all those close knit communities were destroyed
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.
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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?

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