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DetailsOriginal Format: 16mm Colour: Colour Sound: Silent Duration: 3 mins 10 secs Credits: Middlesbrough Genre: Public Information
Subject: HEALTH / SOCIAL SERVICES URBAN LIFE
Summary This is a Borough of Middlesbrough council record of the clearance of 'slum' housing in the St Hilda’s area of Middlesbrough at the end of the 50s.
Description This is a Borough of Middlesbrough council record of the clearance of 'slum' housing in the St Hilda’s area of Middlesbrough at the end of the 50s.
Title: Borough of Middlesbrough [coat of arms]
A wrecking crane demolishes a few Victorian terraced houses in the St Hilda’s area of Middlesbrough. A bonfire burns amongst the rubbleof bricks and a worker watches as the walls of a house crumble. An excavator clears away the rubble.
Newer housing comes into view as the old buildings are demolished. At one point there is a glimpse of St Hilda’s Church.
