The Secret History of Our Streets ' Series Two
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- Episode
- Episode 3 ' The Fittie Squares, Aberdeen
- Broadcast Info
- 2014 (59 mins)
- Description
- At the mouth of Aberdeen Harbour lie the Fittie Squares, a model housing scheme built for fishermen and their families in 1809. Tethered to the sea and cut off from the city the squares developed their own culture. They were a traditional fishing community, untroubled for 150 years, until the day that oil was discovered just a few miles out to sea.
- Genre
- History; Architecture; Social Science
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The Open University, "The Secret History of Our Streets ' Series Two". https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/ou/search/index.php/prog/85931 (Accessed 10 Jan 2025)