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Charles Booth's vast 1886 Survey of London ranks each one of London streets according to the class of their residents. Now in a major series for BBC Two in partnership with the Open University, The... Secret History of Our Streets, returns to six archetypal London streets visited by Booth to discover how their fortunes have ebbed and flowed over the last 125 years. The fourth episode features Portland Road, Notting Hill, the archetypal London banker street, with six million pound homes for hedge fund managers. But when Booth visited in 1899 it was the worse slum in London and still today, living on the same street, are the top 1% in Britain by income, and the bottom 5%. Told through the personal stories of Portland road's remarkably diverse range of residents, past and present, including Lords, bankers and slum dwellers, this film tells the story of one of the most divided streets in Britain.
Charles Booth's vast 1886 Survey of London ranks each one of London streets according to the class of their residents. Now in a major series for BBC Two in partnership with the Open University, The... Secret History of Our Streets, returns to six archetypal London streets visited by Booth to discover how their fortunes have ebbed and flowed over the last 125 years. The fourth episode features Portland Road, Notting Hill, the archetypal London banker street, with six million pound homes for hedge fund managers. But when Booth visited in 1899 it was the worse slum in London and still today, living on the same street, are the top 1% in Britain by income, and the bottom 5%. Told through the personal stories of Portland road's remarkably diverse range of residents, past and present, including Lords, bankers and slum dwellers, this film tells the story of one of the most divided streets in Britain.
| Series: | The secret history of our streets |
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| First transmission date: | 27-06-2012 |
| Original broadcast channel: | BBC2 |
| Published: | 2012 |
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| Duration: | 00:58:56 |
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| Director: | Joseph Bullman |
| Producer: | Katie Bailiff |
| Narrator: | Steven Mackintosh |
| Publisher: | BBC Open University |
| Link to related site: | Website: http://www.open.edu/openlearn/whats-on/tv/ou-on-the-bbc-the-secret-history-our-streets |
| Production number: | FKIL084T |
| Videofinder number: | 82739 |
| Available to public: | no |
