The Secret History of Our Streets ' Series One
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- Episode
- Episode 2 ' Camberwell Grove
- Broadcast Info
- 2012 (59 mins)
- Description
- The second episode features Camberwell Grove. Today ‘The Grove’is an elegant oddity a broad, leafy street of fine Georgian houses set in the seething inner city. Through its long history ‘The Grove’ has come full circle from middle’class prosperity to tight’knit working’class community and back to middle’class affluence again. Through the lively, often passionate accounts of residents past and present the film tells the story of the changing faces of this remarkable street and the people who have lived in and loved its beautiful houses, while at the same time revealing how the fate of the ‘Grove’ was intimately bound up with the monstrous growth of the Victorian city of London and the birth of the modern conservation movement.
- Genre
- History; Architecture; Social Science
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The Open University, "The Secret History of Our Streets ' Series One". https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/ou/search/index.php/prog/82740 (Accessed 10 Jan 2025)