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History of Britain - Changing Lives
- 15.Cities Transformed
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1860 - 1880
The story of Manchester in the mid 19th century, and of how the Victorians tackled the problems of industrial city life. (8.25 mins)
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16.A Golden Age?
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1900 - 1914
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Chapter Breakdown
- 1. Cities transformed: the crowning achievment of the Victorian age.
- 2. Cholera was the wake-up call. The pressure to fix the problem of the water supply.
- 3. The transformation of Manchester - an exercise in 'civic pride'.
- 4. Slum clearance and sanitation: lives transformed through epic feats of Victorian engineering.
- 5. Victoria Public Baths: a palace of civic pride, and a testament to how far we'd come.
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Location details
We visited several locations in Manchester to film this module. Anita Street (formerly 'Sanitary Street') is in the south-western corner of Ancoats - just west of Victoria Square, one of the earliest examples of council housing in England.
Manchester Town Hall isn't open to the public, sadly. It's one of my favourite buildings in England. Absurdly excessive - a monument to Victorian civic pride.
And Victoria Public Baths have been closed since 1993 - they're under restoration, but it's a massive, expensive and time-consuming project.
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