From 19th century industry to 21st century regeneration
As factories and workshops attracted industrial workers to Sheffield in the 19th century, row upon row of ‘back-to-backs’ sprang up, deteriorating into slum dwellings by the 1920s. Park Hill ‘streets in the sky’, originally built to great international acclaim in the 1960s, suffered dilapidation and decline during the 1980s. Rising again above the rubble, new residents are moving into the renovated and restored, iconic, Grade II listed Park Hill in 2012.
UPDATE: BBC News revisited Park Hill in 2016. See the story on OpenLearn Live.
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Very interesting to learn more about this, as I actually live at Park Hill!
Amy Sharrock - 15 February 2017 11:14pm
Very interesting to learn more about this, as I actually live at Park Hill!