Runcorn New Town 'The Leaving of Liverpool' 1974 Full Documentary [1080p]

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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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@EportChris 3 месяца назад

I've always found Halton in general an unusual but intriguing place.

@Dazbo76 9 месяцев назад

I’ve just seen the runway to where I lived in castle fields as a nipper .. lovely nostalgia thanks for uploading,interesting too 👍😉

@outofplacetom 6 месяцев назад

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.

@michaelcarney6280 7 месяцев назад

This made me sad. It's not like this now. I moved here from Liverpool in the 80s.

@chrisbrown-ty6lp 8 месяцев назад

It's amazing how nice it looked then, it's a mess now.

@michaelcarney6280 7 месяцев назад

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!

@chrisbrown-ty6lp 7 месяцев назад

Alternative title - A good idea slowly turning to shite

@michaelcarney6280 7 месяцев назад

@@chrisbrown-ty6lp 100%

@batch6792 2 месяца назад

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.

@fimbles1015 9 месяцев назад

The bus service in runcorn used to be amazing, A bus every 15 minutes.

@sallyowen6320 17 дней назад

Arruvas services is sound

@Keithbarber 10 дней назад

If I have got this correct, runcorn had its own bus dedicated network of bus roads called the runcorn bus way?

@fimbles1015 10 дней назад

@@Keithbarber It does indeed. These busways are separate from the normal roads, They still exist but the busses come less frequently now.

@robinsonrex1280 9 месяцев назад

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.

@R6AAO Месяц назад

My Aunt Moved down to Windmill Hill in the early 80's and I still haven't figured out them damn expressways...

@WeeleyTube Год назад

Cheers for this, great quality.

@TheDavewatts 3 месяца назад

I miss the old Castlefields, it was a great community, I still live here but it's just not the same, completely unrecognisable.

@Bobbins376 10 месяцев назад

Wow. Thanks.

@owenlee6125 3 месяца назад

Smashing it long haul plans

@frankainsworth2686 3 месяца назад

Take people out of concrete jungles ... and put them in ... concrete jungles!

@LuciThomasHardylover-qx6ts Месяц назад

So what went wrong? Looks like it was planned with due care?

@gazfunk 3 месяца назад

By the late 70s it was a hellhole lol

@minijms1 3 месяца назад

Looks like a disaster waiting to happen, I guess the toffs who designed this never lived there.

@Robdutton91 4 месяца назад

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

@iandeakin6993 3 месяца назад

They are still destroying it useless council 😢

@mrshamrack Месяц назад

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.

@Thomes-Maisling Месяц назад

Yes the old one thing that destroyed everything.

@lukeharrop4620 3 месяца назад

50 years on its a shithole

@kevintraynor4508 6 месяцев назад

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.

@telabib 5 месяцев назад

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.

@johndavies7688 5 месяцев назад

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.