Architects who imposed such brutal inhuman ugliness on others, while living in Georgian rectories themselves are and were shameful. Humanity needs beauty.
Great video bringing back memories of my time living in the Leek Street flats, in Leeds, from 1968 - 1980. After moving into Leek Chase we were moved to Rylestone Lawn to allow them to be converted to Electric heating. You could see that the outer pebble effect of the walls was slowly breaking away, the heating bills were getting expensive, and we moved out, to Cottingley, in 1980. Ive got some great memories of my time in thev"Leekies" and have many friends, still, from that time
I mean, the materials they use now are nicer appearing/less toxic, but the mid rise urban developments you see going up over the last 10 years don't look so different to this. And at least these had a large amount of public outdoor space, good parking provision & probably fair rents, whereas now they use every inch & build right up to the carriageway, no landscaping. It really worries me, this '1.5 million new homes in 5 years' they are promoting now. Be it the cladding scandals of recent years or the system building of the 60s and 70s...when quantity is pushed up, quality tends to suffer, and usually ends up costing a lot more in the long term.
@@wrichard11 Well sure, but that has been the case for virtually the entire time since 1960. They say its only recently immigration became the sole, rather than just main driver of population growth, but include british born children of immigrants, who are, logically, only here because of immigration, then its been that way for decades. The population of 'indigenous' in England as been pretty stable at 41-43 million since the 1950s, essentially. Perhaps peaked slightly in the mid 1990s & has been slowly falling ever since. I mean there is the aspect of smaller households (as in number of people) per home...ie pensioners, divorcees, singletons, but that is frozen at 1990s levels due to more young (or not so young!) adults living at home & student households, and internal migration, but I get it - all new homes, net, are either going to migrants, or people who more often than not are moving away from areas heavily populated by migrants. I dare say 1.5 million homes (as in high rises that resemble stacked shipping containers) is a possible target. But they will be tiny & likely house singletons or couples only, so, given 1 million immigrants every year, perhaps even 1.5 million total will not be enough if occupancy is much under 4 people per unit.
These ugly 1960/70 concrete canyons look exelent in cold, wet, wintery Yorkshire. They add to the appeal and looks of a place like crude oil added to a canal, Bleak and ick
Read about the Savona Estate in Nine Elms, Battersea. Two concrete built blocks were so badly built, that by the early 1980s both post-war blocks were torn down. ThamesTV achieve shows a news story about how bad they were, in the 1970s.
im from Hull and remember these just before demolition...ours also had nice landscaping and a good playgound i used but they were so dank looking...even the refurb block wasnt and still isnt appealing. A shame as the concept had merits - just needed to be smaller and built from sips maybe ? and painted with more cheerful shades. great film.
I was brought up in a 60s bungalow. It was heated by electric underfloor heating which i doubt had any insulation under the elements and cost a fortune.
Why the AI voiceover? I lived in Balloon Woods in Nottingham and the joke was in the first year you needed three references to get in, after that three convictions. The ground floor of the block l lived in regularly flooded. One of the blocks was built the wrong way round so the stairs led to a dead end. Usual stuff of lifts as toilets etc
Really nicely presented. From memory - which could be wrong, so please do correct if anyone knows better, but the electric heating was underfloor elements in some of the Leeds flats. So to make matters worse, people had to guess the weather some time out to get the heat into the flat. Whilst weather forecasts do get it wrong today (usually they are not too bad), certainly in the 70's with only a couple of weather forecasts a day on TV (if you owned one) and the radio limited to snippets, predicting if you needed heat or not, was expensive. And the other issue, was a fully designed tested and approved prototype but then selected products were "just too expensive on consideration" for production and a cheaper (untested) and inferior one replaced it?
Some things never change, just the same today but much more expensive while our government wastes money overseas and housing migrants in four star hotels.
Or policing far-right protesters? Replacing ulez cameras after they’ve been vandalised? Investigating prime ministers who claim they don’t have parties during lockdown? Paying lords to turn up at the House of Lords £370/day plus expenses and subsidised restaurants? Allowing utility companies to make record profits and not pay any “windfall” taxes? Paying Liz Truss a pension of £105k/year for job she held for less than a lettuce? Plus full security? Yeah. I can see why you’re angry.
Really good video. I've lived in leeds all my life and it never really had lots of high density housing projects apart from quarry hill and hunslet grange. However many of its garden city projects did fall into decline such as gipton, halton moor and seacroft.
Planners of the time thought they knew how people _ought to_ live rather than how they _wanted to_ live. I began life in Raylands Way, Leeds. That was a really well though-out estate, with plenty of access to open areas and countryside. But that was maternal grandparents' home, so our first family home was Seacroft. Again, it was quite nice (1 Askett Place - now demolished - a theme of my life), with the Wyke Beck a delight for a toddler. From that concrete flat we moved into a similar one in Newhall Crescent Middleton/Belle Isle. Again, it was surrounded by countryside. Then some of that countryside was converted into a system-built estate, and we moved into a maisonette over a flat (brilliant idea - place a noisy family above an elderly couple) in Southcroft Drive - demolished within two decades of its construction, after even more of the pleasant countryside had been converted into the Manor Farm estate. The parental faimily moved to rural Huntingdonshire, but I returned to Leeds for University and watched as the Leek Street Flats were built, replacing the terraced communities, which had had their individual street bonfires in the '50s and early '60s. Nothing seemed to have been learned from the concrete flats, or the Southcroft construction cock-up, so the same mistakes were made. Again, less than a couple of decades after misery for Leekers the estate was demolished, at great expense for tax payers. Residential areas should serve their communities, not the other way around. When will developers learn this?
@MarkJThrelfall never knew that. My dad did the TV service calls in there in the late 60's to the 70's. He said the ppl were mainly decent but the living environment was atrociously designed and very often he would be dodging dog turds on the landing; amongst the children trying to play. It upset him.
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Architects who imposed such brutal inhuman ugliness on others, while living in Georgian rectories themselves are and were shameful.
Humanity needs beauty.
No one held accountable 😠
As usual!
No doubt a few people got rich
I don't know why this came up in my suggestions, but I'm glad it did. I'm also glad never to have lived in these appalling "homes."
Great video bringing back memories of my time living in the Leek Street flats, in Leeds, from 1968 - 1980.
After moving into Leek Chase we were moved to Rylestone Lawn to allow them to be converted to Electric heating.
You could see that the outer pebble effect of the walls was slowly breaking away, the heating bills were getting expensive, and we moved out, to Cottingley, in 1980.
Ive got some great memories of my time in thev"Leekies" and have many friends, still, from that time
Is that Hunslet Grange?
I mean, the materials they use now are nicer appearing/less toxic, but the mid rise urban developments you see going up over the last 10 years don't look so different to this.
And at least these had a large amount of public outdoor space, good parking provision & probably fair rents, whereas now they use every inch & build right up to the carriageway, no landscaping.
It really worries me, this '1.5 million new homes in 5 years' they are promoting now.
Be it the cladding scandals of recent years or the system building of the 60s and 70s...when quantity is pushed up, quality tends to suffer, and usually ends up costing a lot more in the long term.
Those 1.5 million homes aren't for the indigenous people whose birthrate is declining
@@wrichard11 Well sure, but that has been the case for virtually the entire time since 1960. They say its only recently immigration became the sole, rather than just main driver of population growth, but include british born children of immigrants, who are, logically, only here because of immigration, then its been that way for decades.
The population of 'indigenous' in England as been pretty stable at 41-43 million since the 1950s, essentially. Perhaps peaked slightly in the mid 1990s & has been slowly falling ever since.
I mean there is the aspect of smaller households (as in number of people) per home...ie pensioners, divorcees, singletons, but that is frozen at 1990s levels due to more young (or not so young!) adults living at home & student households, and internal migration, but I get it - all new homes, net, are either going to migrants, or people who more often than not are moving away from areas heavily populated by migrants.
I dare say 1.5 million homes (as in high rises that resemble stacked shipping containers) is a possible target. But they will be tiny & likely house singletons or couples only, so, given 1 million immigrants every year, perhaps even 1.5 million total will not be enough if occupancy is much under 4 people per unit.
Very similar blocks went up in Manchester, they were derisively called 'Fort Ardwick' and 'Fort Beswick'. I don't think they even lasted ten years.
We had exactly the same in Blackburn. It was built in the 60s and levelled in the 90s. We called it Alcatraz. Awful place.
Was drug and crime ridden. 😢
Great footage of the construction.
These ugly 1960/70 concrete canyons look exelent in cold, wet, wintery Yorkshire. They add to the appeal and looks of a place like crude oil added to a canal, Bleak and ick
Park Hill always fascinated me its kind of nice a huge chunk of it's still there and well worth going to see.
So basically it was built by crap builders and everything that came after was a direct result of that.
Read about the Savona Estate in Nine Elms, Battersea. Two concrete built blocks were so badly built, that by the early 1980s both post-war blocks were torn down. ThamesTV achieve shows a news story about how bad they were, in the 1970s.
im from Hull and remember these just before demolition...ours also had nice landscaping and a good playgound i used but they were so dank looking...even the refurb block wasnt and still isnt appealing. A shame as the concept had merits - just needed to be smaller and built from sips maybe ? and painted with more cheerful shades. great film.
Great video, praise be to the algorithm
I was brought up in a 60s bungalow. It was heated by electric underfloor heating which i doubt had any insulation under the elements and cost a fortune.
Why the AI voiceover? I lived in Balloon Woods in Nottingham and the joke was in the first year you needed three references to get in, after that three convictions. The ground floor of the block l lived in regularly flooded. One of the blocks was built the wrong way round so the stairs led to a dead end. Usual stuff of lifts as toilets etc
If you think that's AI, then perhaps everyone you speak to and hear a response from is also Al.
You're giving AI far too much credit, here.
@@spookybaba Notice how the creator hasn’t denied it?
@@spookybaba it is Ai.
The entire video has been put together by AI
@@0liver0verson9 you are AI, too. 😄
Thank you for uploading, really enjoy your videos.
Same went up in Burnley, Trafalgar Flats they didn’t last long.
Really nicely presented. From memory - which could be wrong, so please do correct if anyone knows better, but the electric heating was underfloor elements in some of the Leeds flats. So to make matters worse, people had to guess the weather some time out to get the heat into the flat. Whilst weather forecasts do get it wrong today (usually they are not too bad), certainly in the 70's with only a couple of weather forecasts a day on TV (if you owned one) and the radio limited to snippets, predicting if you needed heat or not, was expensive.
And the other issue, was a fully designed tested and approved prototype but then selected products were "just too expensive on consideration" for production and a cheaper (untested) and inferior one replaced it?
Lived in leek street flats in Leeds in 70s
You deserve 1000x the subscribers.
Some things never change, just the same today but much more expensive while our government wastes money overseas and housing migrants in four star hotels.
These aren't good enough for the imported replacement populaton
Exactly what I was thinking.
Or policing far-right protesters?
Replacing ulez cameras after they’ve been vandalised?
Investigating prime ministers who claim they don’t have parties during lockdown?
Paying lords to turn up at the House of Lords £370/day plus expenses and subsidised restaurants?
Allowing utility companies to make record profits and not pay any “windfall” taxes?
Paying Liz Truss a pension of £105k/year for job she held for less than a lettuce? Plus full security?
Yeah. I can see why you’re angry.
Overseas? British people would say abroad. You russian trolls are hilariously bad.
@@TheGodParticleof course you did. you're on a russian troll farm
They crumbled away within 10 years.
Really good video. I've lived in leeds all my life and it never really had lots of high density housing projects apart from quarry hill and hunslet grange. However many of its garden city projects did fall into decline such as gipton, halton moor and seacroft.
i find those buildings mesmerising and beautiful.
Leeds city council did more damage than the Luftwaffe...
When you see the types that work for LCC, you realise why they're so dire.
@@spookybaba The awful, bitter, 'tank-toppers' in the planning department! :D
We have residential buildings going back to the 1920s in Canada. People overtime looked after them.
Planners of the time thought they knew how people _ought to_ live rather than how they _wanted to_ live.
I began life in Raylands Way, Leeds. That was a really well though-out estate, with plenty of access to open areas and countryside. But that was maternal grandparents' home, so our first family home was Seacroft. Again, it was quite nice (1 Askett Place - now demolished - a theme of my life), with the Wyke Beck a delight for a toddler. From that concrete flat we moved into a similar one in Newhall Crescent Middleton/Belle Isle. Again, it was surrounded by countryside. Then some of that countryside was converted into a system-built estate, and we moved into a maisonette over a flat (brilliant idea - place a noisy family above an elderly couple) in Southcroft Drive - demolished within two decades of its construction, after even more of the pleasant countryside had been converted into the Manor Farm estate. The parental faimily moved to rural Huntingdonshire, but I returned to Leeds for University and watched as the Leek Street Flats were built, replacing the terraced communities, which had had their individual street bonfires in the '50s and early '60s. Nothing seemed to have been learned from the concrete flats, or the Southcroft construction cock-up, so the same mistakes were made. Again, less than a couple of decades after misery for Leekers the estate was demolished, at great expense for tax payers.
Residential areas should serve their communities, not the other way around. When will developers learn this?
Some in Blackburn. They were grim! Think they lasted till the 90’s?
Nice video! Perfect timing.
What a disaster. I'm amazed the Architect got jobs after this.
The delusion of ideolgy: Woke architecture
It was a new trial
It wasn’t the architect. It was a bunch of muppets putting the thing together.
Gorgeous work, pal.
Grear video 😊
I think Park Hill Flats in Sheffield was 1950s not 1961
hugely interesting
im sure hes remorseful in his 6.3million dollar castle..
Super creepy AI voiceover spoiled an interesting little clip
The AI voiceover really ruins the video.
You're mistaken this time
AI generated video. Interesting!
The video is great mostly, but please do a real voiceover. Or at the very least do a real voiceover and just use AI to tweak it.
I remember on leach street flats at hunslet Leeds the bedrooms was down stairs as the living rooms up stairs.
I think the now demolished Netherley flats in Liverpool were like this, somewhere was?
It was actually called Leek Street flats, and I moved into these in 1968 until 1980, had some great times and mostly, the people got on well
@MarkJThrelfall never knew that. My dad did the TV service calls in there in the late 60's to the 70's. He said the ppl were mainly decent but the living environment was atrociously designed and very often he would be dodging dog turds on the landing; amongst the children trying to play. It upset him.