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BBC Two's multi-award-winning Secret History of Our Streets told the story of six London streets, from Victorian times to the present day. Now, as its people stand at a crossroads in their history,... the series travels to Scotland to tell the stories of three archetypal streets in Scotland's three great cities: Edinburgh, Glasgow and Aberdeen. Endlessly surprising and not at all what you would expect, the stories of these streets are the story of a nation. 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.
BBC Two's multi-award-winning Secret History of Our Streets told the story of six London streets, from Victorian times to the present day. Now, as its people stand at a crossroads in their history,... the series travels to Scotland to tell the stories of three archetypal streets in Scotland's three great cities: Edinburgh, Glasgow and Aberdeen. Endlessly surprising and not at all what you would expect, the stories of these streets are the story of a nation. 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.
| Series: | The secret history of our streets; Series 2 |
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| Episode | 3 |
| First transmission date: | 05-08-2014 |
| Original broadcast channel: | BBC Two |
| Published: | 2014 |
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| Duration: | 00:59:00 |
| Note: | BBC Two version |
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| Producer: | Mary Crisp |
| Narrator: | Steven Mackintosh |
| Publisher: | BBC Open University |
| Link to related site: | BBC Two website: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04d9k8w |
| Production number: | FKIV253L |
| Available to public: | no |
