0.16 Norfolk Park, my Nan lived in bottom flats, that first house next to bridge was my dentist, I lived there from 1969 to 2008, we were the second family on the estate after it was built and the longest standing tenants when we left. The bottom end of Norfolk Park was a wonderful place to grow up in the 70’s and 80’s, Bluestone school was great, social centre on shops Thursday night, wonderful community, wonderful friends, wonderful neighbours, spent our days playing in a choice of three different woods that surrounded our part of the estate, Castle woods, middle woods and top woods, wonderful area, surrounded by green, Poverty ? Naaaahhh, we weren’t made of money but we wanted for nowt. Estate started to go down the pan in the 90’s when they moved all the druggies in off Kelvin, now it’s just an unrecognisable shizhole. We had the best of this place and I wouldn’t have wanted to grow up anywhere else, so many wonderful memories.

It's grim up north. (Before anyone says owt, I'm a northerner.)

Doncaster and Sheffield were grimey and stank back in the 80's. I used to travel to Sheffield a lot back then. I worked on the Manor Estate renovation in 1989 too, we'd fit new doors and the next day they'd been removed. Loads of violent thieving going on, one shop got fire bombed because of the owners Pakistani background. Glad I lived in smelly Doncaster.

Ah!...the good old days!....soon to return in force :(

I feel sorry for anyone having to endure these desolate conditions . You would be in a state of constant depression !!

Grew up there in the 70’s and it was even worse

You get to see how absolutely awful so much of the 80s was here, and yet you still get people on different threads completely mis remembering and reinventing the past and talking about the 80s as of it was done kind of golden era. In fact, as this video shows, it was mostly grey, bleak and miserable

Sad to see estates.then jobs😐down will they get better

Hi from Georgia !

Threads

I had family that lived in the manor in the 70s

Born on manor grew up on manor bought first pint in manor hotel let's just say manor maketh the man UTB manor blades

Poverty is awful indeed

I can see why Threads was filmed there

This looks like Dormanstown near Redcar

What happened to those very nice looking houses

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The UK needed reform of its industries to make them competitive in the modern world, the political ambitions and power of many trade unions prevented that reform. So when change did come the pain was that much greater for some people. For me and many others the 1980s was fiscally rewarding, but then I had an open mind, was prepared to accept change and was not driven by bankrupt political ideology

No thanks to Thatcher.

'Licence' Are you a Yank? Grrr!