Drone flight around Fagley in Eccleshill

Drone flight around Fagley in Eccleshill - Gone are the green fields and boxes are springing up everywhere.

[@vantransit5692]

Brilliant footage, that's the way to see it👍 it's quite a sight/site

[@timpearson5086]

Development of this sort is a good thing. It's easy on the one hand to yearn for about 1985 when you could walk or run from Moorside Road, across Fagley Lane, down the track, across the disused railway line and up the hill to Calverley. But my impression is that many people from my generation left the area in the 1980s and 1990s, feeling it was rapidly going downhill and had little to offer in terms of skilled jobs or amenities. Everyone young and educated with 'get up and go' seemed to be moving away, leaving an ageing population and too few motivated people left to sustain community groups. However this video shows that people DO want to live in the area, which should be good for bringing the critical mass to sustain local activities and businesses.

[@roberthargrave2212]

Thank you, how the area has changed since I left in 1990

[@MybitofHistory]

You would be hard pressed to find a green field within the Township of Eccleshill these days.

[@nigelcope1501]

I live in one of those houses and they are good solid houses with proper inner and outer walls made out of bricks. They are certainly NOT prefabs and to compare them to prefabs are an insult. People shouldn't comment without the getting the true facts.

[@MrQuintonia]

Hate housing estates, the houses they build these days are worse than the prefabs they put up after the war... And I would not like to be living in those houses below that building site at the beginning of vid...