Sheffield High Rise Social Housing 1956 -1967
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- Опубликовано: 12 апр 2020
- Sheffield High Rise Social Housing 1956 -1967
Including Sheffield Council & Wortley Rural District Council (1st Slide). Brutalism, deck access and Council tower blocks. Images taken in 1980s. UK, British Modernist architecture.
Music
EDITED MIX BY JACOB V
Original song:
Gotye - Somebody that i used to know
Images Courtesy of Edinburgh University
www.towerblock.eca.ed.ac.uk/
Some great photo's. Back when you needed a Proper camera to take photo's. Great upload. Many memories of the flats and what went off in them...Thanks.
I lived in Hyde Park flats in the early 1980’s . They were a fantastic place to live… there was a great community And people were really friendly. The views were amazing and it was incredible watching the winter storms roll in from the west turning the grey city white with snow. . The sunsets were ethereal and while all our friends were freezing in run down terrace housing we were toasty warm as the the flats were heated via centrally heated district heating. The flats were spacious and had balconies and were duplex. The passage ways were wide enough for milk floats ( electric powered milk trucks ) bringing door to door grocery deliveries Decades before tescos Waitrose Asda or Walmart ….. the local pub called the Target was one of the friendliest and most welcoming pubs I’ve ever had the pleasure of going to . I never particularly liked country and western, but we used to have great fun, playing Tennessee early forwards. Mule train on the jukebox as there was a rather eccentric fellow. He used to sing along very loudly and bang the table with a metal tray throughout the song which always set a self with hysterics. The pub owners regularly put out free food, which is very welcome as we were poor students (back in the day when students for only secondhand clothes and bought the leftovers from the Sheffield market. To make Sunday lunch. Sadly I park flats was one of the first ones demolished it was the largest one at the highest point of Sheffield. I don’t know why they demolished it. It was structurally sound and a brilliant place to live.
Prior to living there, I lived in Broomhill and the locals from Broomhill thought we were mad, going to live there and said it was a very dangerous place. The worst violence I saw there was when the police raided the working men’s club where Striking miners were having a meeting sadly, these were the days before mobile phones and video recorders, but I can tell you it was a full on Battle with vanloads of fully geared up right police from the Met in London, sent up to quash the rebellion. I’ll never forget it. Another time I did Guy with an axe screaming And shouting and smashing at the police station door until he was subdued I’m dragged away to hospital. But this was an isolated incident most of the time it’s peaceful, happy and friendly place. Some of the other comments I think are from people who didn’t live there Although I suspect that the place could’ve gone downhill after we left as I neared that the councils policy was to send people to live there who had come from psychiatric institutions under the governments ‘care in the community ‘ programme …….Thanks for posting😊
I used to pass those flats on the way to work, it was sad to see them being pulled down.
Managed the betting shop under park hill flats,happy days
Been in most of these flats and tbh they were all dumps but for some reason I always liked the grim look of them
Know wott u mean kidder! Back in the 80,s woz the mark of the city, grim lookin flats!! I'm Liverpool it wasnt just grim lookin, it woz grim!!! Heroin smashed the city, 1980! Words cant describe!
@@markroberts6656 I don't think I can read this
Fantastic! ...some very nostalgic image's.
I know two people who lived on park hill,and were always having aggro.
Sheffield used to be the absolute tip in respect to what it is now
Who’s this version on ‘Someone I used to Know by’??
And to be clear...Broomhall Flats that feature we’re built around 1970 and demolished around 1990
Only a man with a demolition ball would visit Sheffield with a smile...
Not very understanding of architecture them
Housing plus officers should be made to live in such nightmares to give them a conscience about such dives...
2:08 Ukraine flag on that fencing - but it's upside down. Can't even get that right. Extraordinary.
They used to throw bags of crap at the builders when they were wanting to knock them down. Didnt they build student games. Flats there that are equally crappy after 10 years ??
All houses should be detached.if it means throwing millions of people off our land,then so be it.thats true environmentalism.no more flats built.and demolish the remaining ones...
Disgusting urine infested estate ( park hill). Those tower blocks were ripe for demolition.they were sub standard structures when built,and swayed in the wind.i saw this first hand when I went to visit a mate in Norfolk park in the 90s.
Flats are noisy,avoid.
The backsides of the designers of these flats should be kicked and kicked until they end up in the North sea to drown...
Flats..a crime against humanity....
You are unbelievably thick
The dream head will say " wow dude,look at the view of Sheffield from the tower blocks maaaaan"....as he smokes his useless dope.a realist will say that thousands of these flats are awash with mould,and mouse nuisances....it's just not worth it.for your sanities sakes,and your work life,avoid council flats in Sheffield.