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 👍😉

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.

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

@michaelcarney6280

8 ай бұрын

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

8 ай бұрын

Alternative title - A good idea slowly turning to shite

@michaelcarney6280

8 ай бұрын

@@chrisbrown-ty6lp 100%

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

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

@sallyowen6320

Ай бұрын

Arruvas services is sound

@Keithbarber

24 күн бұрын

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

@fimbles1015

24 күн бұрын

@@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.

Cheers for this, great quality.

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.

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.

Wow. Thanks.

Smashing it long haul plans

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

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

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

50 years on its a shithole

By the late 70s it was a hellhole lol

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

4 ай бұрын

They are still destroying it useless council 😢

@mrshamrack

Ай бұрын

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

Ай бұрын

Yes the old one thing that destroyed everything.

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

6 ай бұрын

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

6 ай бұрын

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.

@kenwkls6392

5 ай бұрын

@@johndavies7688 🤣🤣🤣

@TheGinglymus

4 ай бұрын

I have no idea how you can interpret it like that. I think it's the opposite.