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Date: , 2024

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Location: Hartcliffe Community Centre

Venue: Hartcliffe Community Centre, BS13 0JW

Price: Free

With: Paul Smith

Series: South Bristol History Festival 2024

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Subjects: Modern History (Post World War II)

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Hartcliffe from the air 1960s

The long awaited launch of Paul Smith’s book Hartcliffe Betrayed: The fading of a poast-war dream, or how a garden city became a housing estate, 1943-1963.

A salutary lesson for current planners can be drawn from this detailed examination of the failure of an ambitious project in the immediate post-war environment to live up to its expectations. Houses were desperately needed: What principles should underpin a new ‘settlement’? Where should the houses go? Who were they for? And what provision should be made for the likely political and financial changes over the timescale of the project?

Changing governments, shifting priorities and inevitable cuts meant the dream was progressively trimmed and gradually became drowned in a sea of MUD.

In Hartcliffe Betrayed, quotes from official documents, contemporary newspapers and interviews with ‘pioneer’ residents show the downward slide from ‘ideal neighbourhood’ to dormitory estate.

Front cover showing girls playing in front of a Hartcliffe council house

Event details

Date: , 2024

Time:

Location: Hartcliffe Community Centre

Venue: Hartcliffe Community Centre, BS13 0JW

Price: Free

With: Paul Smith

Series: South Bristol History Festival 2024


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