Generation who were so happy about just the basics of life, would never moan at a tiny crack in the wall, they were proud and they were always spotless.

I have happy childhood memories going to the park hill. The ladies Maureen and Sheila are my family members, my mum's cousins.. My mum & family grew up on there. I loved visiting them all. Such a close nit community.

I have an enormous amount of affection for Park Hill Flats. My Nan lived up on Norwich Row as it was then. It's great to see them restored and reimagined.

I lived on the flats from 1962 to 1982 best years of my life

1994 I was a student nurse and the local paper had a add where you could literally walk into the council office and sign for a flat and collect the keys. It's been developed now and sold off. I understand it's a saught after place. Interesting how when English heritage steps in and lists a place it gives it new life. Brutalism has come full circle and is back in vogue.

old people are so cute haha!

It was a great place to live in the 80/90's i really loved it, met some great friends and had some bloody good times, sitting on landing havin a tea n a chat, got bad at the end last 2 or 3 years, but still fond memories and if they offered me 1 at top end i would move back

It come to that throw greed of the council kicked us out for what it was fantastic on there

These lady’s will never live on park hill again😕 I saw a new refurbished flat on park hill for 165k

This video is very informative. 'It were lovely' :)

Earning a living in a free Capitalist society keeps things like new. When the government is involved, everyone and no one owns it.

Was it Progress or not? Unlike many of the other big council flats Parkhill was properly designed, many council flats were not. Lessons: > Council flats should be maintained and secured, with money spent for periodic upgrades. > Designs should take an account of the human/community. Less top down planning. In Walkely(Sheffield) they petitioned against and mostly managed to avoid the slum clearance and with lots of small improvements it is now a vibrant community with lovely properties.

Park hill seemed to work slightly better than the crescents in Hulme, or fort Beswick or Ardwick in Manchester, Because despite having the same alienation problems and crime as the above they were at least built out of sturdier stuff that could stand the test of time! Not out of bog roll and sandpaper like the other estates!!!!

Was it progress ? YES it was , and if they hadn’t been left to rot they still would be !! But the estates got too big and too much to maintain !! Original tenants moved out for greedy developers who have got their mits on prime location !!!!

I think now in opinion 2016 when you get into town centre park square roundabout. when you look at park hill now. it looks like Sheffield council have run out funds in doing these up they aren't finished

Kelvin, norfolk Park and Hyde Park flats were huge compared to Park hill

Slightly surprising symposium at the end (Jimmy Tarbuck and Lulu).

They was amazing in the day -Heating ,bathroom’s no rotten brickwork smelling musty and grass and open spaces .The first wave of people moving in the high rise was proud ,mopped and cleaned the landings and lifts ….Then they put less desirables in them and it all went tits up -Not the high rise buildings fault ,just the people they put in them 😳

And what about the Southgate estate in Runcorn with the round windows that was nicknamed “Legoland?” Were the architects on drugs when they designed that or what?? Completed in 1977 and demolished in the early 90’s! Crazy?!

Fot that period it was.....because after the war there was an enormous housing shortage in Europe and they needed to solve that problem quickly.....so cheap houses were quickly built to house young families and other people who were forced to with the entire family in a single room or with grandparents. It was a good solution THEN but later it became a big problem. I guess the problem was with the Red Road Flats (for example) it was way to anonymous and too many people and floors in 1 building crammed together with other giant blocks hardly 150 metres away from each other.......with no facilities, outcasted very far away from the city on the borders of wasteland......the same for Gropiusstadt in Berlin and the Bijlmermeer in The Netherlands.....

3:01 I don't recal ever seing the older structure in the middle of the new.

1.36 onwards those old buildings

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Really interesting video! Do you have a business enquiry email address I can use to get in contact with you?

Go down pub have ten pints get foookin plastered go back block have steak n kidney poop

In a word ; NO.