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awemawson:
I remember being very inspired many years ago by what really was a rather sad film, sorry cannot remember the title but I'm hoping someone else can.

Set in Northern UK a chap, presumably a foundry worker, had either been laid off or had had to retire. All his working life he had wanted to make his wife a very fancy set of Bedhead / Bed foot panels - highly decorative and from cast iron - he was obsessed by it but no one would let him.

Living in a tiny terraced house he built a brick cupola in the equally tiny back yard (it was a yard complete with Privy not a garden) and at long last achieved his life long ambition.

Of course no one else really appreciated his work, and on his death at the end of the film, it was seen in what was obviously an area of WW2 bombed out housing that had been bulldozed, and children were bouncing up and down on it and breaking it up.

The bomb site scene probably dates it to the 1950's or 60's

Anyone remember it, or better still can put a name to it?

naffsharpe (Nathan):
Sounds like it could be my (birth) neck of the woods in West Hartlepool. I'm a youngster at 64 yrs old but have talked to my older cousins and half siblings and they can remember the townscape you describe. I was born in town at home /Cameron's Hospital but we moved from Burn Valley to Wingate quite early in my life. My cousins and half siblings were brought up initially in the type of housing you describe, my father who owned his own business , could afford more salubrious housing. It could also be Redcar/Midboro/Consett etc.
Nathan.

awemawson:
Sadly I remember several Northern Cities  - Liverpool, Manchester, Leeds - with large areas laid waste. My own infants school in Leeds had a 'playground' that was piles of shattered bricks.

Of course it wasn't just the North - Plymouth, Southampton, London all took a pounding as did many other places.

Pete W.:
I remember going to visit a friend in Greater Manchester, this was back in the 1970s.  We drove through an area where the old 'back-to-back' housing was being demolished, prior to redevelopment.  The demolition technique was quite simple - a pair of crawler tractors driving up parallel streets towing a loop of steel cable!

Where the demolition was complete and the debris cleared, the ground was bare and level and there were just the kerbs to mark the edges of the road.  There were no visual cues at all above ground level not even street lamps.  It made for quite an eerie driving experience!  Difficult to estimate the distance to the next junction! 

hermetic:
Leeds Andrew? By eck lad, arm fre Pudsey wear't pigeons fly backard te keep soot outa't eeys!

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