300 Years of Housing film

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300 Years of Housing film

This film provides a brief introduction to the evolution of UK housing over the last three hundred years.

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Film details

This film replaces an earlier film 'A Brief History of Housing', which has now been discontinued. Using a variety of archive footage, archive photographs, graphics and newly filmed video, it shows how housing styles and construction have changed since 1700, and explores some of the forces which brought about that change.

Demise of timber frame, 16th century stone buildings
Queen Anne housing and rise of classicism
Baroque housing, the rise of the Georgian terrace, Regency housing
Working class housing, back to backs, terraces
Improvements to Victorian housing, 'villa' in the suburbs
Early council housing, garden city estates
Speculative development in between the Wars, 1940s prefabs
Post war system building, high rise, 1970s and 1980s estates, moving back into the city