Heather Harrison recalls her happy days spent living at Park Hill during the 1970s and explains why returning half a century later is 'bittersweet'
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00:00Hi, can you tell me a bit about your memories of living here at Park Hill in the early 70s?
00:06Brilliant. I loved it. It was like a little town. We had all the amenities, all the shops.
00:15We had a nursery, a school. It was a real community. Everybody knew everybody else.
00:26Everybody helped everybody else. We were never lonely. We used to stand on the doorstep talking to neighbours
00:39and be invited into neighbours' houses and things like that.
00:43Good times.
00:44I loved it. There were good times. The only reason I left was because I wanted my children to be able to play in a garden, basically.
00:53What do you think coming back today and seeing what's happened to it?
00:56I've got mixed feelings about that. I left in 1973, so I've been away from it for quite a while,
01:11even though we did used to come and do the shopping down here and things like that.
01:16I've only been in one flat, that's my friend's, so I don't know what the others are like.
01:24I don't know what the community's like. So, as I say, I've got mixed feelings.
01:34The Maisonette that I had is on the next part to be done. After it's done, I think I would like to go in and see what's been done to it.
01:48Thank you.
01:49Okay.