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Scotland from the Sky

Tower blocks were heraldedas smart solutions to inner city housing shortages but just a...

Tower blocks were heralded
as smart solutions to inner city housing shortages but just a few decades later, they became part of the problem, monuments to social decay
and deprivation

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Tower blocks were heralded as smart solutions
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to inner city housing shortages
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but just a few decades later,
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they became part of the problem,
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monuments to social decay and deprivation.
Duration
15 seconds
Views
17
Timestamp in Movie
00:44:11
Uploaded
Jun 29, 2025
Season
1
Episode
2
Genres
Production
Clear Focus Movies

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Movie Summary

In an exhilarating mix of aviation adventure and historical detective work, presenter James Crawford takes to the skies to explore Scotland's cities, coasts and countryside.
S01 • E03 Nature was now a thing to be celebrated - Scotland from the Sky 00:08
Nature was now a thing to be celebrated
S01 • E01 It's not so much the case that the road stops here, - Scotland from the Sky 00:08
It's not so much the case that the road stops here,
S01 • E03 Instead, landowners began to create gardens - Scotland from the Sky 00:07
Instead, landowners began to create gardens
S01 • E01 To understand what's happened here, - Scotland from the Sky 00:07
To understand what's happened here,
S01 • E03 So Dalrymple created a magnificent new garden, - Scotland from the Sky 00:08
So Dalrymple created a magnificent new garden,
S01 • E02 Lives lived high in the Glasgow sky - Scotland from the Sky 00:06
Lives lived high in the Glasgow sky
S01 • E01 These images were taken by the RAF in 1947. - Scotland from the Sky 00:05
These images were taken by the RAF in 1947.
S01 • E01 They show the road I've just taken winding its way south - Scotland from the Sky 00:08
They show the road I've just taken winding its way sout...
S01 • E03 We're in the central part of the building - Scotland from the Sky 00:06
We're in the central part of the building
S01 • E02 Over time, new buildings are created to redefine the character - Scotland from the Sky 00:07
Over time, new buildings are created to redefine the charact...
S01 • E03 Lady Emily Stair has researched the history of Dalrymple's garden - Scotland from the Sky 00:09
Lady Emily Stair has researched the history of Dalrymple...
S01 • E01 Today, as we've seen, it's all very different. - Scotland from the Sky 00:04
Today, as we've seen, it's all very different.
S01 • E01 The level of the loch is higher - Scotland from the Sky 00:06
The level of the loch is higher
S01 • E02 And our vast collection of aerial photography - Scotland from the Sky 00:07
And our vast collection of aerial photography
S01 • E03 He had an extraordinary career as a soldier, as a politician. - Scotland from the Sky 00:05
He had an extraordinary career as a soldier, as a politician...
S01 • E03 But had a fallow period, - Scotland from the Sky 00:07
But had a fallow period,
S01 • E02 Laid out in these pictures from across the 20th century - Scotland from the Sky 00:16
Laid out in these pictures from across the 20th century
S01 • E01 Taken just a few miles north, - Scotland from the Sky 00:08
Taken just a few miles north,
S01 • E03 He was very much inspired by Versailles - Scotland from the Sky 00:10
He was very much inspired by Versailles
S01 • E03 He made use of the troops that were stationed nearby, - Scotland from the Sky 00:10
He made use of the troops that were stationed nearby,