Thamesmead | 1980s London | East London | Housing Development | TN-84-085-011.
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- Опубліковано 30 вер 2024
- Thames News report following the 350 million pound project to create a new town on marshlands. After more than a decade the continuation of the Thamesmead development is under threat from being completed. Thames News looks at the potential affects of the abolition of the GLC Greater London Council
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The amount of time we spent on that merry-go-round in the Summers of the early 80s, not to mention the giant blue slide and the monkey bars. Something happened between the mid 80s and the early 90s and after that there were no more children playing in the parks. The estate turned into a filthy crumbling nightmare landscape. And the misery spread too. Right across to Abbey Wood (which used to be a beautiful little place) up Knee Hill towards Welling and now as far as Sidcup. Crime, vandalism, out of control children, complete lack of parental control and no real community to speak of anymore. RIP Thamesmead, the rats in the newly built shoebox flats have you now.
When these estates were being built , they were very ideal. Old slums house were torn deemed unfit and out of date. Lack of maintenance , clean up , and repair have made these estates unfit. The architecture is not faulty , its the people who live there and vandalise it. They do graffiti , piss on walkways and lift, muggings, drugs etc. Look at Beckton estate in docklands, its no different, same problem. These estates were built with a great vision, but dirty politics and lack funding let it go into disrepair. People of criminal backgrounds ruined a perfectly good estate. What are we gonna do next? Tear down Barbican complex, just because its made of concrete. Don't rip apart, fix the problem.
This estate had failed by the mid 80s...
Thamesmead became a sink estate that’s why it went downhill
@TheOneTheTrev It's the people as well unfortunately. When you live next door to someone who throws their babies' nappies out the window it doesnt matter how much you've scrubbed your doorstep...
@Trevor Mitchell Counselling? What are you talking about? That's not the correct word at all.
Yeah Mohammed fam you are 100% spot-on. I lament the demise of these interesting bits of architecture. They speak of an era of hope that turned ultimately to be an era of despair. Allahu akhbar.
Estates:
Dreams of the 1960s, nightmares of the 1980s
Private developers are moving in alright. Peabody housing action association have got ther hand on the entire estate and are pulling down buildings that they cannot sell to their yuppie friends from the city and doing up the rest to sell to them. Crossrail is going to make Thamesmead a des res OK.
Absolutely , I’ve just watched an update on this estate regeneration by Peabody and left an almost identical post as yours on there 🤣 I’m expecting it to be removed !!
That place looks fantasic
20 years late all he said came true
That was the town of my old school!!!!!
i wonder if many white english live there now i doubt theres many
They fucked up the area and moved on I think!
@@spaceageMrT Really ??
The area is actually still majority white English, it’s probably one of the whitest council estates in London still
I lived at the top of Church manorway from 72-87 and spent half my childhood fishing on southmere snd birchmere lakes,it was just a ten minute bike ride to either,great memories.
South East London*
Thatcher hated the working class,and the GLC even more.
She ruined all of this
"A Beautiful Thing"!
Yes, It was filmed there!
The best district in world.
The death nell for a hearty vision of quality of life for the poor.
Social housing disaster. Contractors made loads of money and the whole thing was a complete disaster. Once again... all about financial gain, backhanders and profits for the rich.
Tall estate buildings are disastrous
Well they're building them all over London - closer than ever
But they work in every other country ! But not here ! That says a lot about the people not the buildings .
Tall residential buildings that are privately owned and rented by professionals and working families usually tend to work well, it’s when they are used to house the poorest in society that it begins to go disastrously wrong. Housing single parents families with numerous kids in an overcrowded flat with drug addicts in the same building etc is of course not going to work and lead to endless social problems
South London actually
That’s funny so a film about before it was built and during building and it said 60k people
Home of Alex and his drugs
Home to amdullah and his drugs and knife fam
How Fuckin dare you!! tarnish/disrespect my home town of Thamesmead by quoting, wrongly, by the way, that it is East London. SE28 is south east London at it's best. Please amend this absolute insult with immediate affect and beg for forgiveness. Thanx
The estate isn’t even in SE28, it’s mostly SE2 and the Eastern end of it is DA18 I think
Those old GLC architects really didn’t like colour did they? Building on a flood plain wasn’t a great idea either and all the ‘developers’ heading down that way now (again) know this.
Which year is this?
Orrible place rip it down
OMG I spent so many Summers visiting my cousin who lived on 10 Myra Street we used to go to ride the sailboats when it first opened in the '70s wow wow wow my eyes are tearing up
I lived in Churchmanorway and delivered papers to 10 Myra street for Mr Jelly's shop on the corner of Churchmanorway and Manton road,that was nearly forty years ago😊.
@@notpoliticallycorrect1303 they lived there then and my family live there now the Gardeners
@@notpoliticallycorrect1303 and I remember that shop
I had to watch a 45 min ad before I could watch this
No you didn't. You just refresh and it goes away
Ann Other I didn’t refresh tho
@@iDrinkYourMilkshake You knw next time. I hate that though, listening to youtube when I'm trying to sleep and a giant advert starts to play