Runcorn New Town 'The Leaving of Liverpool' 1974 Full Documentary [1080p]
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- Опубликовано: 1 июл 2023
- A Canadian documentary exploring British New Towns.
Runcorn New Town was designed and built to relieve the population growth in Liverpool, providing better housing conditions and a safer, cleaner environment to live in. This documentary explores these claims to see how things actually are for its new inhabitants.
0:00 - Intro 'The Leaving of Liverpool', Shots of Liverpool 1970s
2:54 - Runcorn New Town Master Plan
3:50 - Runcorn-Widnes Bridge (Silver Jubilee)
4:04 - Runcorn Busway
6:02 - Runcorn Shopping City
9:14 - Local communities
10:47 - The Castle, Architecture style
12:38 - Facilities for young people
14:46 - Castlefields Community Centre
16:03 - Resident Interviews
23:53 - Town Planners Interviews
36:31 - End
© Michel Régnier, National Film Board of Canada 1974 
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I've always found Halton in general an unusual but intriguing place.
I’ve just seen the runway to where I lived in castle fields as a nipper .. lovely nostalgia thanks for uploading,interesting too 👍😉
It's amazing how nice it looked then, it's a mess now.
I know made me sad watching how amazing It was back then! I moved to Southgate as a child in the 80s and now the town is a shithole and the scallies are out of control!
Alternative title - A good idea slowly turning to shite
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Love the idealism of the documentary, and planning lumanaries like Peter Hall. I've never been to Runcorn, its not high on my list, but I'd love to go to the idealistic 1970s version of it.
This made me sad. It's not like this now. I moved here from Liverpool in the 80s.
2024: - What a terrible shame the majority of this land no longer have the sense of community We once did. New folk to a new place - all working together for a successful area to live & flourish, & call home. The people of today could learn a thing or two from the people of the past.
The bus service in runcorn used to be amazing, A bus every 15 minutes.
Arruvas services is sound
If I have got this correct, runcorn had its own bus dedicated network of bus roads called the runcorn bus way?
@@Keithbarber It does indeed. These busways are separate from the normal roads, They still exist but the busses come less frequently now.
Wow, a town ahead of time. It would've been great if new towns that had sprung up throughout the world since then had given importance to the good old bus. Sigh.
Wow. Thanks.
My Aunt Moved down to Windmill Hill in the early 80's and I still haven't figured out them damn expressways...
I miss the old Castlefields, it was a great community, I still live here but it's just not the same, completely unrecognisable.
Take people out of concrete jungles ... and put them in ... concrete jungles!
Cheers for this, great quality.
Smashing it long haul plans
So what went wrong? Looks like it was planned with due care?
Looks like a disaster waiting to happen, I guess the toffs who designed this never lived there.
50 years on its a shithole
Should’ve left the place alone. Now it’s a shell of the town my parents and grandparents grew up in, half of the town’s history has been bulldozed and the canals filled in. All destroyed in the name of social housing
They are still destroying it useless council 😢
The problem wasn't the ideas themselves... More the crappy building and maintenance.
In Holland, Denmark etc there's loads of similar places but with proper investment and funding for amenities. They are also close eto the city not 18 miles away in a different province.
Yes the old one thing that destroyed everything.
By the late 70s it was a hellhole lol
Sounds like a conservative idea, screw the low paid people and those that perhaps have disability and can t work and give houses to those with more money. Deffintlly a utopia way of living. It makes people with low income sound like scum.
I moved there in 1974 with very little money, just like lots of other people. I lived in castlefields in a nice flat provided by the council. You can never please some people.
Fascinating that you should say that. Poor old Arthur Ling, chief architect for this master plan, would be gutted given that he was a committed communist for most of his life.
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I have no idea how you can interpret it like that. I think it's the opposite.