In his new documentary New Town Utopia, director Christopher Ian Smith offers an eye-opening account of how greed and political bias played a hand in the downfall of what was billed as one of the greatest social experiments in post-war Britain. The scheme which was hatched by Clement Attlee’s Labour government, came under the 1946 New Town Act which was devised to improve the lives of working people across the country and more specifically in London which was still recovering from the fallout of the Blitz in WW2. Many East End dwellers made the move from London to these new towns seduced by the promise of new homes and better paying jobs, however less than 50 years later most of these towns were left to slowly deteriorate and those who lived in them with nowhere else to turn to.
Focusing the bulk of the narrative on the birth of Basildon, one...
Focusing the bulk of the narrative on the birth of Basildon, one...
- 5/3/2018
- by Linda Marric
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
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