{"id":2927,"date":"2010-07-12T07:44:06","date_gmt":"2010-07-12T07:44:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.singleaspect.org.uk\/?p=2927"},"modified":"2026-06-04T10:22:38","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T10:22:38","slug":"homes-for-heroes-documentary-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/singleaspect.org.uk\/?p=2927","title":{"rendered":"Homes for Heroes &#8211; documentary review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This documentary first broadcast by the BBC in 2005 is a compilation of film clips linked together by a commentary from architectural critics and is an attempt to put together a coherent account of the events following the Second World War when the country was in great need of new housing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/singleaspect.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/hffh.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12309\" title=\"HffH_th\" src=\"https:\/\/singleaspect.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/hffh_th.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"336\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The film lasts one hour and what follows is a list of the main subject headings with reference to the films from which the clips are taken.\u00a0 The film shares many of its clips with <a href=\"https:\/\/singleaspect.org.uk\/?p=2760\">High Rise Dreams<\/a> reviewed earlier in this blog, though that film being half the length.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Homes for heroes opens with a jaunty jazz tune and Oliver Cox, one of the LCC architects of the 1950s saying that &#8220;there was a very heady feeling at the time, that we were building a\u00a0 new Britain&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The film follows the outline shown below with film references given where available in bold:-<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Prefabs &#8211; Maurice Linden &#8211; <strong>Tonight 1957<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Harlow &#8211; New towns\u00a0 &#8211; <strong>Panorama 1956<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The Lawn &#8211; Frederick Gibberd &#8211; <strong>One Foot in the Past 1994<\/strong> &#8211; Diane Kay<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"\/doc\/FHTM_BertholdLubetkin.html\">Berthold Lubetkin<\/a> &#8211; <strong>One Foot in the Past 2002<\/strong> &#8211; Dan Cruickshank<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left; padding-left: 30px;\">Penguin Pool &#8211; London Zoo &#8211; Regents Park<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left; padding-left: 30px;\">Highpoint &#8211; Hampstead &#8211; floor plans and photos from <a href=\"https:\/\/modernarchitecturelondon.com\/buildings\/highpoint.php\">Modern Architecture<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left; padding-left: 30px;\">Spa Green flats &#8211; Finsbury<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left; padding-left: 30px;\">Bevin Court &#8211; Finsbury<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hdawards.org\/archive\/2009\/winning_schemes\/historic_winner\/index.php\">Tayler &amp; Green<\/a>, Norfolk &#8211; <strong>One Foot in the Past<\/strong> &#8211; Elain Harwood &#8211; 1996<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Alison and Peter Smithson &#8211; Hunstanton School &#8211; <strong>Travels with Pevsner &#8211; 1997<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Denys Lasdun &#8211; Hallfield School Paddington &#8211; <strong>Monitor 1961 with Huw Wheldon<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Festival of Britain 1951 &#8211; <strong>One Foot in the Past &#8211; 1999<\/strong> &#8211; Kirsty Wark<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">A Tonic to the Nation -M. Banham and B. Hillier &#8211; Book<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>One Foot in the Past &#8211; 1994<\/strong> &#8211; Dan Cruickshank<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Lansbury Estate Poplar<\/p>\n<p>Royal Festival Hall &#8211; a long section of the film is devoted to this building, [and rightly so &#8211; Ed.]<\/p>\n<p>Alton Estate Roehampton &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/iplayer\/episode\/p01rtkbd\/building-sights-series-4-6-alton-estate\">Building Sights &#8211; 1995<\/a> &#8211; Richard Rogers<\/p>\n<p>Coventry &#8211; <strong>Cathedral Calls &#8211; 2000<\/strong> &#8211; Janet Street Porter<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Watch here -&gt; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.leb.org.uk\/PostWarBritain\/homes4heroes.mp4\">Homes for Heroes<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Here follows the word list from which the Wordle was made.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>New-Britain<br \/>\nOliver-Cox<br \/>\nDenys-Lasdun<br \/>\nFrederick-Gibberd<br \/>\nLord-Esher<br \/>\nWorld-War-II<br \/>\nWinston-Churchill<br \/>\nClement-Attlee<br \/>\nNew-World<br \/>\nAndrew-Saint<br \/>\nHomes-fit-for-Heroes<br \/>\nPrefabs<br \/>\nAnne-Power<br \/>\nNew-Towns<br \/>\nAneurin-Bevan<br \/>\nLord-Bruce<br \/>\nHarlow-New-Town<br \/>\nThe-Lawn<br \/>\nLady-Patricia-Gibberd<br \/>\nOne-Foot-in-the-Past<br \/>\nDan-Cruickshank<br \/>\nBerthold-Lubetkin<br \/>\nHighpoint-1-Highgate<br \/>\nSpa-Green-Estate<br \/>\nBevin-Court<br \/>\nTayler-Green<br \/>\nHunstanton-School<br \/>\nHallfield-School<br \/>\nFestival-of-Britain<br \/>\nHerbert-Morrison<br \/>\nKirsty-Wark<br \/>\nSkylon<br \/>\nRoyal-Festival-Hall<br \/>\nQueens-Hall<br \/>\nRobert-Matthew<br \/>\nLeslie-Martin<br \/>\nPeter-Moro<br \/>\nLansbury-Estate<br \/>\nAlton-Estate<br \/>\nRichard-Rogers<br \/>\nJonathan-Glancey<br \/>\nNicholas-Taylor<br \/>\nUnite-d&#8217;Habitation<br \/>\nCoventry<br \/>\nJanet-Street-Porter<br \/>\nJohn-Piper<br \/>\nSir-Basil-Spence<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This documentary first broadcast by the BBC in 2005 is a compilation of film clips linked together by a commentary from architectural critics and is an attempt to put together a coherent account of the events following the Second World War when the country was in great need of new housing. 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