Hallwood Park

The demolition of the old 'Southgate Estate in Runcorn.
Rebuilt and renamed to Hallwood Park.
The old 'Southgate was designed by the late James Sterling in the early 70's,and was referred to as 'Legoland',or ship containers because of the round ship like windows.

[@heiditorres9]

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.

[@DaveBeaven-tx2tp]

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.

[@EE-lh3kd]

Why not post the tape on ur account

[@Only1Sabe]

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

[@williamdrabble8781]

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

[@allenprice355]

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.

[@adamstocks8674]

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.

[@steviehwly]

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

[@akb8065]

This is so interesting

[@bunchlead]

really miss them days.but there gone forever.

[@keithwoodsvideos]

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

[@TheSisko1]

i miss the place, i lived on Kestrels

[@Markytho]

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.

[@EE-lh3kd]

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

[@iangreer3877]

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....

[@RossOLeary]

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

[@TheSisko1]

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

[@iangreer3877]

TheSisko1 yeah remember it well used to go there with Chris Smith and john Burke

[@fryoung1]

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

[@jimrick52]

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