Southgate was a rat run, one way in one way out. All the other estates were better.

My brother had a studio flat there and was a good stop off after a night in the Cherry Tree pub and the lodge chippy. Good times.

Imagine watching ur house being torn down and ur new one being built next door 😂

I remember videoing Legoland when it was on BBC News Northwest in around August/ 1990. They interviewed former residents. I still have the video tape after all those years and can’t find it on KZbin. Today, they would make this a Grade 2 listed building if it was still standing. It was designed by a famous architect. Demolition had just started when it was on the news.

What a great video. There seems to be so few photos or film of the Southgate estate

Hi my dad Joe Blundell sadly passed away on the 15th of January 2022 age 70 he passed peacefully in his sleep. R.I.P Dad x

This is so interesting

Very interesting! sad an interesting building could not be repurposed or reimagined. What replaced it was... suburban banality

I loved Southgate lived there all my life then they tore it down and made hallwood park we’re we lived I miss Runcorn

It's been 28 years now since the first started demolishing Southgate. So many great memories living there. I just wish they hadn't of knocked it down it was a lovely area to live in. R.I.P Southgate 😭😭😭

from my last comment, when I first moved to Runcorn on a late Friday afternoon in early Sept of 1991 myself and kids went to the shopping city to get our weekly shopping as my then wife was still in hospital in Gobowen recovering from a massive spinal operation to straighten her spine and we moved 3 days before she was discharged so that the move was complete and all the furniture in place, but while we was in the shopping city I heard many people refer Southgate to concrete City as thats all it looked like, and then all the new alterations to the shopping city and then the renaming to Halton Lea

I lived in Runcorn when they demolished Southgate est as it was an absolute eyesore those flats or houses with the round widows, who ever the architect was that design those with the stupid round windows must have been pissed at the time, goodness knows what the damn builders must have thought when they saw the plans, I bet they had a right old laugh and had to go and get pissed to get over what they saw, I was still there when they rebuilt the estate and boy what a massive improvement with its own pub and if memory serves me right its own park for the kids and the estate fenced off down one side thats all I remember as I moved away in Dec 2000

I have lived in Hallwood Park

Thanks for posting this (over 10 years ago). This was a slightly random youtube find for me - with quite an emotional impact. My old house appears briefly at 04:30. Southgate had problems; but it had character too.

Anyone remember chris Smith and john Burke 78-79 we lived in the green three storey houses rosam grove was OK then but heard it became a shit hole soon after we left, used to hang about with Darren Hill aswell, I used to hate Norton priory school that was a fuckin yomp wen we had to walk it every day fuckin place horrible teachers, used to love the Southgate disco to be fair there was one every week in some part of runcorn, Castlefields, murders haw, etc we prob got out just in time not that we were there for long, good memories though lived in worse places after that....

I lived on rosam grove in the three storey green houses anyone remember the hill family Darren, David, Derek, Tommy and sisters lovely family they lived next door to the Geary family and we lived next to John Burke who lived opposite chris Smith haha 😂 great memories we left there in 78 great memories has anyone got any more footage bang it on, love it.

I have lived in hallwood park all my life, It's awesome seeing it being built.

Hi Joe. I'm beginning an art project on the Southgate Estate and was wondering if I could get in contact with you?

Thanks for all the nice comments it was a good and bad time of my life to film it I'm glad I done it now so many memories for so many people appreciated! Joe

I live on Southgate for 10 years all of the 80's but i cant remember much of my time there at all, it was all a very large blur..thanks for posting the vid..it bought back some memories

Good ole south gate! Many nice memories of that place ( can`t remember her name though lol ) !

Must be 20 years since Southgate was knocked down. Happy days, and lots of great memories of friends and family.

Nice touch mate. It was an ugly place but lots of decent people lived there. Great memories all round.

Welldone for uploading this and I like it so thumbs up. It would've been good if they'd had videoed the destruction of Norton Priory County High School back in 2002. It's good for posterity I suppose especially for those who hated the place but not so for those who may have liked it.

crazy looking at this, i lived in parkers square in the mid 80s for about 4 years as a kid from liverpool i,d never seen anything like it, got some really great memorys. the youth club used to be on the block behind ours.

i miss the place, i lived on Kestrels

anyone remember the glass youth club in one of the blocks ?

Worked on the demolition of this site for months.Most of the rubble was taken to various tips around the area.It was sad to see all the personal items and childrens toys etc which were left behind by the families.

Who else remembers south gate eh?Lmao !We used to hang about there as kids before it got knocked down and yes it was a bit rough but there there were alot of good times there !

Good video,good soundtrack. Castlefields is changing too.Woodland Walk, the biggest concrete structure in Europe, to be demolished,August 2011.

great choice of song by the way - the lyrics are perfect!

if anyones wondering, the song is build by the housemartins. is there any more footage of southgate out there? - this is incredible!

i remember southgate in the 80's - it was a shit hole! it stank of dog shit and all the stairways reeked of piss! my parents said it was a nice area till they moved all the scally 'problem families' in!

I lived on Kestrels View when i was a kid, i loved it.

I lived in Murdishaw at the time, and we always used to go down to the shopping city and across the famous iron bridge over to Southgate, to skateboard and just to play! As a child it made me feel uneasy and unwelcoming, and I would never go there on my own. Maybe its because it was so angled, dark and colourless that made it look less appealing in comparison to the red bricked windmill hill or the greener murdishaw!

Lived on Southgate and had some of the Best years of my life living there. Then they built Hallwood Park and things were never the same. That vid just brought back loadsa memories.

its a shit hole and still is

its still the same just better houses

livercorn wat a shit hole

memories memorie ey....

I lived on kestrals view when i was a kid,and used to love playing in the woods and on the parks.seeing those lego houses again and especially those round windows brought back so many memories.

At 2:17 I live about 10 houses down

really miss them days.but there gone forever.