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1 online resource (streaming video file) (55 min. 14 sec.) ; 332659472 bytes |
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In 1886 Victorian social explorer Charles Booth embarked on a hugely ambitious plan to visit every single street in London to record the social conditions of the city's residents. House by house, street by street, the lives of four million people were mapped and categorised according to their social position. The Secret History of Our Streets revisits six of these archetypal London streets and interviews residents past and present to discover how the fortunes of the streets have ebbed and flowed in the last hundred and twenty-five years. We'll find out what kind of person lives in each house now, and what kind of person lived it in then.Deptford High Street in Victorian times was so prosperous that a third of the working class shopkeepers could afford to keep a servant. But the terraces off the High Street which fed its prosperity were pulled down in the in the 1970s as part of a modernist plan to usher in a new, centrally planned London of tower blocks. Many of the people who had worked on the street for generations, didn't want to leave their homes. Some lived amongst the rubble for years, before finally being forced out. To justify pulling down Deptford's streets, the Council declared the homes as unfit for human habitation. (Documentary Series) (From the UK) PG CC Follow the conversation on Twitter #SBSdoco |
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Broadcast 2013-08-30 at 19:30:00 |
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Classification: PG |
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Booth, Charles, 1840-1916.
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Architecture -- Conservation and restoration.
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British -- Social conditions.
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Slums -- Social aspects.
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Stores, Retail.
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Streets -- Maps.
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England -- London.
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Streaming video
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Bullman, Joseph, director
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Mackintosh, Steven, cast
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