Then you preferred they live in houses they swallowed they have no bathrooms or sewage?! Many lived in shackle houses with leaky roofs and holes in the walls... Tell me please honestly if that is better living in a clean housing commission flat! blogs.slv.vic.gov.au/such-was-life/the-slums-of-melbourne/
I remember the South Melbourne Housing Commission 'Tower' being built on Park Street, 1967. Back then they rammed pylons into the ground with a lot of noise that went on for seemingly a year. We watched the progress every day walking to School. It was 30 Floors when completed. Wow.
Its a tragedy that these high-rise buildings were designed and built so poorly. If the Housing Commission had put more thought and resources into this public housing initiative, then perhaps these housing estates may have worked. Instead , the HC replaced low-density slums with high-density slums.
Doesn't matter where you are these places all end up turning into slums. We had the same issue in WA with Brownlee Towers. Turned the suburb into a crime ridden s-hole until they bulldozed the place.
Building the Melbourne housing commission flats 1965 footage of Emerald Hill, Kensington, Flemington, Carlton and North Melbourne. Recognise anything else? Excerpt from ‘The City Speaks’ a Crawford productions documentary courtesy of the ACMI collection.
lived in the Boundry rd Nth Melb flats in the early 60s .. I recall a pub being on the corner a 100 meters away ( bottom right corner at the 2:54 mark ) It was a different time, people were different, life was different, even the sunlight was different,
Housing that would have been far more shtty likely with outdoor toilets and often poor plumbing. These were a step up for many. Melbourne (and Sydney) had some awful slums well into the 1950’s.
Well give Labor bankrupted us then and Labor has all but bankrupted us now, would it be a surprise. But it sounds like spending money we haven’t got is something you agree with?
It's easy to have good intentions, the Bolte state government had them with its programme to replace "slums" with Commission flats. But before we try a new style of government housing for low icome people, we have to be absolutely sure the new buildings won't become ghettos for crime and drugs like the Commision flats did.
What started out with good intentions turned into hell for some. Lived in Fitzroy flats. Sends a shiver up my spine just thinking about it...
Then you preferred they live in houses they swallowed they have no bathrooms or sewage?! Many lived in shackle houses with leaky roofs and holes in the walls... Tell me please honestly if that is better living in a clean housing commission flat!
blogs.slv.vic.gov.au/such-was-life/the-slums-of-melbourne/
I remember the South Melbourne Housing Commission 'Tower' being built on Park Street, 1967. Back then they rammed pylons into the ground with a lot of noise that went on for seemingly a year. We watched the progress every day walking to School. It was 30 Floors when completed. Wow.
steel slide and monkey bar 😣 jeez, how hot were they in summer 🥵
Before the big public housing build there were shantytowns in west Melbourne with people living in wood sheds with no water.
Interesting footage we live in North Melbourne and great to see this old footage, thanks for posting.
As a kid coming home from the beach we passed these flats in Hoddle St, always grateful to have a backyard .
Flat 4 / 94 Canning st. Nth.Melb. 1962 ! Thank-you Gezza 👍
My best timee in life was the years i was living in richmond high rises. I will never forget those years
❤ lived in Mark st North Melbourne , fond memories growing up
Its a tragedy that these high-rise buildings were designed and built so poorly. If the Housing Commission had put more thought and resources into this public housing initiative, then perhaps these housing estates may have worked. Instead , the HC replaced low-density slums with high-density slums.
Doesn't matter where you are these places all end up turning into slums. We had the same issue in WA with Brownlee Towers. Turned the suburb into a crime ridden s-hole until they bulldozed the place.
Building the Melbourne housing commission flats 1965 footage of Emerald Hill, Kensington, Flemington, Carlton and North Melbourne. Recognise anything else?
Excerpt from ‘The City Speaks’ a Crawford productions documentary courtesy of the ACMI collection.
Really good 👍 video Gezza
Another great on, loved the Picken tribute!
@@torpedodropkick59 cheers, great to read.👍
@@danrobinson572 cheers again 👍
Wow, would love to see the entire documentary this is excerpted from. Called The City Speaks, apparently, by Crawford Productions.
Times changed, eh?
Yes Suse, great doco. Info in description.. ruclips.net/video/XakNHii8pFY/видео.html
Good 👍 video Gezza!!!
Apparently, the population density of the new apartments was less than the slums that they replaced...
A good idea at the time
Gezza1967 has done it again
I love the flats all of them. ❤️🍀🇦🇺
lived in the Boundry rd Nth Melb flats in the early 60s .. I recall a pub being on the corner a 100 meters away ( bottom right corner at the 2:54 mark ) It was a different time, people were different, life was different, even the sunlight was different,
After looking on google maps the pub on the corner is still there, Kensington Hotel...
Kathy Hull Corbett moved to nth Melbourne towers in 1965 the back to stkilda
OLD AUSTRALIA IT'S VERY BEAUTIFUL
North Melbourne high rise 9th floor 🎉🎉🎉🎉 loved it
Whats that room that has the big giant vent like thing that you see through on the outside of the tower on the elevator shaft?
Wow there that old?
They must got the idea from England that what reminded me of it
You are right. Same idea. Same failures
More like American high rise in New York, hundreds of them there. Projects they call them.
The good old days
Sth.Yarra in '80s. Definitely "discovered a new way of life."
Anyone here lived at Kensington in the 80s
Hi just found this , yes i lived on derby st from 1978 until 1987
That is why houses used to be affordable
Theres no explanation of what was on these sites before ????
Also :
Melbourne slums 30s
Housing that would have been far more shtty likely with outdoor toilets and often poor plumbing. These were a step up for many. Melbourne (and Sydney) had some awful slums well into the 1950’s.
Richmond wasn't included.
Prahrans ones, williamstowns heaps more
Their intentions were never for the good.
No actual construction photos. Interesting... 🤔
I’ve edited out most of the construction, though there’s definitely some in there.
@@Gezza1967 is there a video of the construction ?
@@avus-kw2f213 yes see video description
@@Gezza1967 thank you
Horrid even back then
No it wasn’t. Have you ever seen some of the slum’s Melbourne had in the inner suburbs. Those single front terrace houses back then were disgusting.
Kennels, poor whoa's, i'm surprised that prick J.K didn't build more these in the 90's
Well give Labor bankrupted us then and Labor has all but bankrupted us now, would it be a surprise. But it sounds like spending money we haven’t got is something you agree with?
Danny hunchback did a number on Victoria didn't he..bankrupt state Victoria 😅
All those little kiddies, probably the ones that turned out to be angry sharpies when in their late teens.
1:22
Wouldn't see a white kid at those flats today
No you don't.
Knock em down and relocate the people to better facilities
Why they'll just ruin those anyway
At least we'll be rid of them
“Better facilities”
@@anastasiosdimtsis1 that’s selfish
How about instead of ruining other people’s area you move
We need public housing and we have better building styles to do better than this 60 years later!
It's easy to have good intentions, the Bolte state government had them with its programme to replace "slums" with Commission flats. But before we try a new style of government housing for low icome people, we have to be absolutely sure the new buildings won't become ghettos for crime and drugs like the Commision flats did.
No we dont
See how they treat that ‘better’ housing. It’s the people that are the problem. Not the housing.