{"id":21904,"date":"2024-05-18T07:24:44","date_gmt":"2024-05-18T06:24:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/?post_type=pamphlets&#038;p=21904"},"modified":"2025-05-29T16:38:15","modified_gmt":"2025-05-29T15:38:15","slug":"hartcliffe-betrayed","status":"publish","type":"pamphlets","link":"https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/pamphleteer\/hartcliffe-betrayed\/","title":{"rendered":"Hartcliffe Betrayed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How a garden city became a housing estate, 1943-1963.<\/p>\n<p>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 \u2018settlement\u2019? 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?<\/p>\n<p>Changing governments, shifting priorities and inevitable cuts meant the dream was progressively trimmed and gradually became drowned in a sea of MUD.<\/p>\n<p>In <em>Hartcliffe Betrayed<\/em>, quotes from official documents, contemporary newspapers and interviews with \u2018pioneer\u2019 residents show the downward slide from \u2018ideal neighbourhood\u2019 to dormitory estate.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_23584\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-23584\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/ABA2-2024-logo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-responsive wp-image-23584 size-2_or_3_across_no_crop\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/ABA2-2024-logo-270x241.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"270\" height=\"241\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/ABA2-2024-logo-270x241.png 270w, https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/ABA2-2024-logo-300x268.png 300w, https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/ABA2-2024-logo-100x89.png 100w, https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/ABA2-2024-logo-150x134.png 150w, https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/ABA2-2024-logo.png 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 270px) 100vw, 270px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-23584\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Runner-up <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alan_Ball_Local_History_Awards\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Alan Ball Award<\/a> 2024 for best Local History hardcopy publication.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul style=\"margin-top: 50px;\">\n<li>Read the article on <em>Hartcliffe Betrayed<\/em> in the <em>Bristol Post<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bristolpost.co.uk\/news\/bristol-news\/lost-garden-city-bristol-new-9281468?utm_source=app\">The lost &#8216;Garden City&#8217; of Bristol &#8211; new book reveals how people on one of Britain&#8217;s biggest estates were &#8216;betrayed&#8217;<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Download the pdf of the article on <em>Hartcliffe Betrayed<\/em> in the <em>Bristol Times<\/em> history section of the <em>Bristol Post <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/BTp1May21.pdf\">Solution to housing problem never happened.<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Read the review article on the Bristol 24\/7 website: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bristol247.com\/news-and-features\/features\/hartcliffe-hidden-history-explored-new-book\/\">Hartcliffe&#8217;s hidden history explored in new book<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 \u2018settlement\u2019? 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