Liverpool Tenements of the 1930's

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Uploaded by on Dec 30, 2006

This is an extract from the 1938 film Homes For Workers. It details Liverpool City Councils plans for the buidling of tenement blocks within the city. I used extracts in my film Gardens of Stone which focuses upon City Centre living in the 20th Century.

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  • The footage is featured in my film Gardens of Stone, but was originaly included in a film made by the Gas Board. It was used to promote the benefits of gas in new homes (hence the scripted comments by Mrs Greaves), and highlighted Liverpool City Council's major investment in communal housing in the 1930's.

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  • Though this was something of a propaganda film for the gas company, I think they did have some benevolent intentions in social planning and it seemed to have worked. -tarotworldtour

  • Nice digs, but German bombing destroyed quite a bit of them.

  • @TheGardens Hi, the video includes my grandmother (Mrs Greaves). I would be grateful to know where the full original video may be found.

  • Really interesting. The Bullring (St. Andrew's Garden's) is the only one of them left isn't it? I talked to a fella who grew up there, he said the drying room was bizarre, the way the metal racks slid out of the wall.

  • That's where my mum lived, Myrtle Gardens.

  • 1 doctoma.you are alwaya slaging liverpool off if you dont like it thir fuck of somewere else u dick.ask any of the old famillys who lived in myrtle gardens was they the days of thir life 99per cent would tell you yes..you had to live thir to understand it..

  • My family grew up in Myrtle and Kenny then got fucked off to speke and netherley....try building a community in those shiteholes.....

  • myrtle gardens days of my life mark kidd ,1doctoma you didint live thir so keep your mouth shut you nob

  • what liars....try living there you dirty bastards...

  • Was Lancelot Keay being filmed in Blackburn Chambers does anyone know?

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