Reel History of Britain
Season 1, Episode 17: Streets in the Sky
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This episode of Reel History comes from the Park Hill Estate in Sheffield as we look at Housing redevelopment in the 1960s. Park Hill and estates like it were seen as the solution to over crowding caused by a baby boom and rising rates of immigration after the Second World War but in reality they might have been good in the short-term but quickly declined and most become an eyesore. Park Hill was once labelled the worst estate in Europe but is now being redeveloped again. Melvyn meets some ex- residents to find out what went wrong.
All Episodes - Season 1
Episode 1
Britain's Wartime Evacuees
Episode 2
Britain's First Teenagers
Episode 3
Soldier, Soldier
Episode 4
Britain's Black Diamonds
Episode 5
The Roaring Twenties
Episode 6
Britain's Home Guard
Episode 7
Britain's National Disgrace
Episode 8
Britain On the Move
Episode 9
The Glory Days of Fishing
Episode 10
Sun, Sea and Sangria
Episode 11
The Birth of the NHS
Episode 12
Steel Ships and Iron Men
Episode 13
A Right Royal Knees Up
Episode 14
Britain's Green and Pleasant Land
Episode 15
Britain's Secondary Modern Schools
Episode 16
Long to Reign Over Us
Episode 17
Streets in the Sky
Episode 18
The End of the Line
Episode 19
Dawn of a New Era
Episode 20
Beside the Seaside