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The Secret History of Our Streets

10.0 / 10 · 1 votes

2012

1 season

6 episodes

Documentary

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Ep 1
1.Deptford High Street
06-06-2012
In Booth's time, Deptford High Street was 'the Oxford Street of South London'. Today, marooned amid 70s housing blocks, it is one of the poorest shopping streets in London. Featuri...
Ep 2
2.Camberwell Grove
13-06-2012
Today, Camberwell Grove is an elegant oddity - a broad, leafy street of fine Georgian houses set in the seething inner city. The street has come full circle, from middle-class pros...
Ep 3
3.Caledonian Road
20-06-2012
This episode features Caledonian Road, which starts next to King's Cross station and heads north for over a mile. From its beginning, the street has been resolutely working class a...
Ep 4
4.Portland Road
27-06-2012
This episode features Portland Road in Notting Hill, the archetypal London banker street, dominated by homes worth as much as £6,000,000. Yet when Booth visited in 1899, it was the...
Ep 5
5.Reverdy Road
04-07-2012
The fifth episode features Reverdy Road, Bermondsey, which has endured as an enclave of working-class respectability. When Booth visited in 1900, he was impressed by the houses, ga...
Ep 6
6.Arnold Circus
11-07-2012
The sixth episode features Arnold Circus, in the East End and the story of a Victorian social experiment that changed Britain. Arnold Circus is home to the first council estate whi...

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