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The Secret History of Our Streets

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Series exploring the history of archetypal streets in Britain.

Series exploring the history of archetypal streets in Britain, which reveal the story of a nation.

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The Secret History of Our Streets: Series 2: Episode 3: The Fittie Squares, Aberdeen

The Fittie Squares, Aberdeen

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Episode 3: The Fittie Squares, Aberdeen

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BBC Two - The Secret History of Our Streets, Series 2, The Fittie Squares, Aberdeen

Focusing on the Fittie Squares, a model housing scheme built for fishermen in 1809.

The series about archetypal streets in three of Scotland's great cities focuses on the Fittie Squares, a housing scheme built for fishermen in 1809.

BBC Two's multi-award-winning Secret History of Our Streets told the story of six London streets, from Victorian times to the present day.

Now, as its people stand at a crossroads in their history, the series travels to Scotland to tell the stories of three archetypal streets in Scotland's three great cities: Edinburgh, Glasgow and Aberdeen.

Endlessly surprising and not at all what you would expect, the stories of these streets are the story of a nation.

At the mouth of Aberdeen Harbour lie the Fittie Squares, a model housing scheme built for fishermen and their families in 1809. 

Tethered to the sea and cut off from the city, the squares developed their own culture. They were a traditional fishing community, untroubled for 150 years, until the day that oil was discovered just a few miles out to sea.

The Secret History of Our Streets: Series 2

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Series telling the stories of three archetypal streets in Edinburgh, Glasgow and Aberdeen.

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