The Secret History of Our Streets Scotland - Media Overview

Media Coverage July – August 2014 Compiled by tpr media consultants

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EVALUATION KEY QUOTES EPISODE ONE: EDINBURGH Previews Reviews Catch Up Features EPISODE TWO: GLASGOW Previews Reviews Catch Up Features EPISODE THREE: ABERDEEN Previews Reviews Catch Up EPISODE SYNOPSES

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tpr media consultants distributed episode synopses together with a cover letter to an extensive list of key national TV critics, including Gabriel Tate (Daily Telegraph), Joe Clay (The Times), A A Gill (The Sunday Times), John Robinson (The Guardian), Mike Bradley (The Observer), Nigel Andrews (Daily Mail) and Gerard Gilbert (The Independent).

The Secret History of Our Streets: Scotland received blanket coverage across national newspapers, listings and consumer magazines in previews and reviews, many tying in with the topical Commonwealth Games which took place in Glasgow.

The series was a critical success and all three episodes consistently received four or five star reviews. It was highlighted as ‘Critics Choice’ by Gerard Gilbert for the i and The Independent, by Mike Bradley for the Observer and by Nigel Andrews for the Daily Mail. It was selected as ‘Pick of the Day’ by The Guardian, the Daily Mail and the Daily Express. It was also listed under ‘Today’s TV Choice’ in the Metro, ‘TV Highlights’ in The Independent, ‘Watch This’ in The Guardian, ‘What to Watch’ in the Daily Telegraph and ‘Today’s Highlights’, the Sunday Telegraph and the Radio Times. tpr media consultants also targeted regional Scottish media and received an overwhelmingly positive response, resulting in over 25 regional previews and reviews across the three episodes across publications including the Daily Record, The Scotsman, Daily Mail (Scotland), The Sun (Scotland), Daily Express (Scotland), Evening Express (Aberdeen), Press & Journal (Aberdeen), Courier and Advertiser (Dundee), Evening Telegraph (Dundee), Edinburgh Evening News (Edinburgh), The Herald (Glasgow), Highland News (Inverness), Northern Scot (Elgin) and Glasgow Evening Times (Glasgow).

There were three features in the Independent, the Daily Record and the Edinburgh News and the series was also featured on BBC Radio Scotland breakfast radio show Good Morning Scotland.

KEY QUOTES

‘Probing but never provoking, Bullman is rewarded with fascinating stories… This is a series that could – and should – run and run.’ – Gabriel Tate, The Daily Telegraph

‘A fantastic documentary series with intellectual and aesthetic ambition…’ – The Daily Telegraph

‘One of the TV treats of 2012 was The Secret History of Our Streets, a six-­‐part series using half a dozen London thoroughfares to document the huge socio-­‐economic changes of the past few centuries. So this three-­‐parter on Scottish streets marks a welcome return.’ –The Sunday Telegraph

‘It’s a fine achievement and about far more than just bricks and mortar.’ – Joe Clay, The Times

‘A beautiful, quite haunting programme…’ – Hugo Rifkind, The Times

‘By far the best programme of the week was The Secret History of Our Streets, the return of the remarkable series that has wrested architecture back from afternoon estate-­‐agent porn, makeovers and Britain’s Best Shed… Nicely made, it trod a sure but stealthy path between the civic and the personal, the nature and history of the buildings, and of the people who lived in them…’ – A A Gill, The Sunday Times

‘A charmingly told story of systematic social division.’ – John Robinson, The Guardian

‘A fascinating, topical architectural and social history. Watch it.’ – Mike Bradley, The Observer

‘Whether exploring London or Scotland, the series does an incredible job of connecting people to places, of teasing out emotions from architecture, of reminding us that buildings and streets are the locations for our own happiest and saddest moments.’ – Christopher Beanland, The Independent

‘[A] sharply focused slice of civic history.’ – Gerard Gilbert, The Independent

‘This beautifully made series – telling ‘the story of us all’ through the stories of individual streets – returns in great form. – Daily Mail

‘[A]nother fascinating slice of social history…’ – The Daily Mirror

‘This is an informative and enjoyable history lesson for all.’ – The Sun

‘Fascinating stuff.’ – The Sun

‘How wonderful it is, when so many television documentaries scream and shout, to watch one that whispers. The Secret History of Our Streets (BBC Two, Friday 9pm) was the first of a series of programmes about Scottish streets and it was a gentle, subtle, delicate essay on the human relationship with the places we live in.’ – Mark Smith, The Herald

‘Sometimes the best stories turn up on our own doorstep… A winning combination of architectural and social history.’ – Teddy Jamieson, The Herald

‘The Secret History of Our Streets was a delightful and fascinating portrait of Fittie through the ages.

Beautiful photograph and quirky, engaging interviewees made this a cut above most programmes we see about this area… Well worth catching on iPlayer if you missed it.’ – Evening Express

EPISODE ONE Edinburgh

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BBC National Press The Observer (The New Review) 20 July 2014 46 214644 163cm2 2849.24

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BBC National Press The Sunday Telegraph (Seven) 20 July 2014 46 418670 208cm2 4759.04

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BBC National Press The Times (T2) 25 July 2014 12 392743 261cm2 7955.28

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BBC Scotland Evening Express (Aberdeen) (Main) 25 July 2014 18 43067 69cm2 436.08

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BBC Scotland The Courier and Advertiser (Dundee) (Main) 25 July 2014 37 56243 46cm2 315.1

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BBC Scotland Evening Telegraph (Dundee) (Main) 25 July 2014 42 20421 66cm2 160.38

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BBC Scotland Edinburgh Evening News (Main) 25 July 2014 31 30176 552cm2 3251.28

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BBC Scotland The Herald (Main) 21 July 2014 16 38939 194cm2 1482.16

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telegraph.co.uk http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/10976599/The-Secret-History-of-Our-Streets-an-alternative-history-of-Scotland.html

The Secret History of Our Streets: an alternative history of Scotland One of the TV treats of 2012 was The Secret History Of Our Streets, a six-part series using half a dozen London thoroughfares to document the enormous socio-economic changes of the past few centuries.

So this three-parter on Scottish streets – gracefully narrated, once again, by the BBC’s go-to guy, Steven Mackintosh – marks a very welcome return. Joseph Bullman’s film addresses the Moray Estate in Edinburgh’s New Town, a Victorian development build by and for the upper middle class.

Since then, thanks to the incredibly tight planning regulations imposed by the then-Earl of Moray, the elite have more or less stood firm against the barbarians at the gate, with their raised taxes, subdivided properties and small businesses: many residents are direct descendants of those that moved in almost two centuries earlier.

Indeed, the current Lord Moray (who still lives there) is planning his own mixed community New Town in the Highlands.

Probing but never provoking, Bullman is rewarded with fascinating stories from the bluff, amiable characters now on the estate – tales of Empire, domestic servitude and lavish society gatherings as they retreated into history.

If it perhaps lacks the emotional impact of some of the tales of grinding poverty and crass bureaucracy from the first series, its intellectual and aesthetic interest is enormous, and it has a breadth of coverage that puts many documentaries to shame. This is a series that could – and should – run and run.

The Secret History of Our Streets is on BBC Two on Friday 25 July at 9.00pm

radiotimes.com http://www.radiotimes.com/episode/cy9hsq/the-secret-history-of-our-streets--series-2---1-the-moray-estate-edinburgh

The Secret History of Our Streets

Review by: Jane Rackham The winner of the RT Readers Choice at last year’s Grierson Documentary Awards turns its gaze north of the border to tell the stories of streets in Edinburgh, Glasgow and Aberdeen.

The Moray Feu in Edinburgh is an estate of imposing five-storey Georgian houses built to exacting architectural rules to house the city’s wealthier inhabitants. So it’s inevitable that we hear tales of boarding schools, grand balls, nannies and butlers, plantation owning, riding to hounds and marrying the “gurll” next door from those residents who’ve lived there all their lives.

Despite some houses being subsequently used as hospitals or nursing homes and the arrival of “fixer-uppers” in the 50s, the houses haven’t changed much, although nobody seems to have an army of domestic staff to run them any more.

About this programme 1/3. New series. After telling the story of six London locations from Victorian times to the present day, the documentary returns to look at the history of three archetypal streets in Scottish cities, at a time when the country stands on the brink of leaving the United Kingdom. The first programme focuses on Edinburgh's Moray Estate, which the Earl of Moray commissioned architect James Gillespie Graham to design in 1822 as an expansion of the New Town, and which remains one of the most upmarket and exclusive areas of the capital. Steven Mackintosh narrates.

scotsman.com

http://www.scotsman.com/lifestyle/arts/news/bbc-series-shows-secret-history-of-scots-streets-1-3474470

BBC series shows secret history of Scots streets THREE of Scotland’s most historic streets are to feature in the new series of a critically-acclaimed BBC documentary looking at the personal stories behind the architecture.

Edinburgh’s Moray Place, Duke Street in Glasgow and the village of Footdee in Aberdeen were investigated by film-maker Joseph Bullman in series two of the Secret History of Our Streets, which was nominated for 12 awards including a Bafta after it was shown two years ago.

The first series featured six archetypal London streets, from the first council estate in Britain to Notting Hill’s Portland Road.

Moray Place, in the heart of the capital’s New Town, has been hailed by the filmmaker as the “last bastion of the British Empire” due to its upper middle class population – many of whom are descendents of the original occupiers of the street, which was built in 1825.

In the first programme, to be shown on BBC Two on 25 July, Mr Bullman spoke to a range of residents from the great-grandson of the Earl of Moray, who created the street on his land in the early 19th century, to incomer Ian Gray, who grew up in a two-room tenement and made his fortune in private equity before snapping up one of the few five-storey townhouses on the street which have not been turned into flats.

The street’s fortunes have ranged from being an upper-class family area to being taken over by businesses, including three private hospitals, during the early 20th century.

“When we decided to make a second series in Scotland, we didn’t know whether we would find the wealth of history that we had discovered in London,” said Mr Bullman. “But we did.

“However, while in some areas of London, when we looked at the history of certain streets, we saw a constant stream of migration. In Scotland, it was very different. Some people’s families had lived in the same street for generations.”

The team put letters through doors in targeted areas of Scotland’s three biggest cities and waited for residents to contact them before deciding who to feature in the documentaries.

“I went to Edinburgh’s New Town, where I discovered a street unlike anything you could ever find in England,” said Mr Bullman. “The last bastion of the British Empire – with an architecture and a people seemingly unchanged over 200 years.”

John, the 21st Earl of Moray, is currently trying to follow in his ancestor’s footsteps by building the controversial Tornagrain new town in the Highlands.

Resident Patrick Simpson, 92, who lived on Moray Place for much of his life and recalled the team of servants who lived in his family’s home until the war, is featured in the documentary. Another local is David Hope, Lord Hope of Craighead, whose family has lived in Moray Place since it was built and who holds the same position as head of the Scottish judiciary system – Lord President of the Court of Session – as his ancestor Charles Hope, who also lived in Moray Place more than 200 years earlier.

The episode featuring Duke Street in Glasgow will look at its history as Britain’s longest street, and the subject of a campaign by local residents to stop it being demolished by the local council.

Footdee, which is the topic of the third episode, was a planned housing development purpose-built in 1809 to rehouse Aberdeen’s local fishing community.

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http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2014/jul/25/the-secret-history-of-our-streets-tv-review

The Secret History of Our Streets – TV review Sam Wollaston

A long way from Trainspotting … The Secret History of Our Streets (BBC 2). Photograph: Alistair Devine/BBC/Century Films This is timely: with the eyes of the world (well, some eyes) on Scotland because of the Commonwealth Games and an impending referendum, The Secret History of Our Streets (BBC2) has caught the mood of the moment by going there too. Not to Glasgow, but Edinburgh – and a very different Edinburgh from the one of Trainspotting.

The Moray Feu in the New Town is, quite simply, "the poshest street in Scotland". And the people who live there are the poshest Scots in Scotland. So posh they sound like posh English. They don't talk about it here, but I'm guessing this lot will mostly be voting no on 18 September.

There's grand architecture, and a grand story with a splendid cast. It started with an earl and an exclusive enclave of elitism. There is still an earl there, descended from that first one, and others whose families have lived there for generations. Colonialists and lord presidents and members of the Order of the Thistle, and brigadiers, and noble men who used to take their horses with them on the train. But there have been hard times, too, when once grand palaces were sold for a song, or turned into hospitals and nursing homes. Now it's a mix of crumbly old money – aristocrats hanging on with their swords, paintings and memories – and new money moving in, putting in lots of extra bathrooms as well as actually sounding like Scots. So, much more than a story of town planning and grey stone, The Secret History of Our Streets is a story of social change, fascinating and moving, as it was last time round.

Film-maker Joseph Bullman has a lovely way with them, the people. Prying, but in a gentle, friendly manner.

Humorous, too. He seems to like them, they seem to like – and trust – him back. Not that they're always very forthcoming. "Do you ever stand here and imagine what it must have been like when it was first built, when they would have balls in this room?" he asks Käthe Paton, looking up at a corner of fancy plaster ceiling in what is now her storeroom. "Not really, no," she replies.

theweek.co.uk

http://www.theweek.co.uk/tv-radio/59649/secret-history-of-our-streets-tackles-the-scottish-question

Secret History of our Streets tackles the Scottish question The Secret History of Our Streets was an unexpected hit when it slipped onto BBC2 in 2012. Unexpected because an Open University-assisted social history project hardly seemed like box office gold, but a hit because it landed in the peculiarly British sweet spot where house price fetishism meets an obsession with social class.

The original series, which told the stories of six London streets through the personal histories of their residents, was inspired by Charles Booth's colour-coded poverty maps.

Mayfair, for example, is a yellow swathe of "servant-keeping classes", while the East End is flecked with the dark cross-hatching that signified the presence of the "vicious and semi-criminal".

The second series of Secret History, which begins this evening, strays off these maps to survey Edinburgh, Glasgow and Aberdeen. Nevertheless, it soon finds itself in familiar social territory.

The elegant Georgian terrace at Moray Place, one of Edinburgh’s grandest addresses, was shaped by classconsciousness. The plots were laid out to fit around the Earl of Moray's estate, and each buyer signed up to strict conditions designed to ensure that this pleasant corner of the New Town remained the preserve of the elite.

It was an attractive proposition for well-to-do families fleeing the old city centre, where they lived in amongst the poor and disreputable and alongside grubby commerce.

By contrast with many London streets, where wave after wave of domestic or international migration has brought with it a sense of variety and transience, Moray Place remains remarkably unchanged from its original design.

These are houses that have descended through the generations. One belongs to the current Earl of Moray, who guides us through his home, and the ancestral portraits that line its walls. "We've still got that kilt," he says, pointing to a distant relative, depicted in full Highland dress. "It's somewhere in the attic."

As in the first series, director and writer Joseph Bullman collects such telling details and spins them into a narrative that transcends personal recollection.

And, sensibly, he stretches his terms of reference in the interests of telling a good story. So when it turns out that the architect Basil Spence once had an office in Moray Place, he takes an instructive detour to the Gorbals tower blocks Spence built – and unearths some revealing archive footage in which an unfortunate resident asks the architect why his buildings look so awful.

"Well that’s very subjective," he says, with a patrician smile. "I gave each of you a balcony, a piece of garden, and I thought you might grow peaches."

Politics seep from every word of this documentary, and while there is barely a mention of the decision Scotland will make in less than two months, both sides of the referendum debate will find arguments to support their positions.

The pro-independence camp will note that Britain's national broadcaster devoted six episodes to London and found time for just three to cover the whole of Scotland – but in its substance this series offers more comfort to the unionists.

It paints a picture of two nations whose fortunes have been deeply intertwined for generations. Individual details stand out – a third of Britain's colonial governors were Scots, for example – but together they convey a deeper sense of togetherness. On either site of the border, the same tide of history has ebbed and flowed.

From the emancipation of women after the First World War and the subsequent shortage of servants to the rise of new money in the 1980s, the streets of Edinburgh and London have been shaped by their shared past.

And what of the future? As with Scotland as a whole, some residents of Moray Place are weighing up whether to stay or go – and a few seem rather resentful towards the grand old structures in which they live.

"I don't belong in this room," says one, whose husband died and left her alone in a five-storey house. Another's husband is still alive, but already she is planning her escape. I won't stay here forever, she says. "It’s not economical for one person."

But others are queuing to move in, attracted by the grandeur of tradition. Some are turning offices into residences, others knocking flats back into vast family homes – taking something old and venerable and reshaping it for the modern world.

Soon Scotland will decide whether the union is to be demolished or rebuilt. However it casts its vote, Moray Place will endure.

The Secret History of Our Street starts on BBC2 tonight at 9pm · © Copyright The Week Ltd which is a subsidiary of Dennis Publishing Limited.

The Week is a trademark of Felix Dennis.

independent.co.uk http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/estates-of-the-nation-lets-hear-it-for-the-man-in-the-street-9602310.html

Estates of the nation: Let's hear it for the man in the street Joseph Bullman is on a mission. The man behind the multi-award-winning 2012 BBC series The Secret History of Our Streets claims to know what is wrong with factual programmes on television these days. "Documentaries have been taken over by celebrities," he says. "Some development executive somewhere will come up with an idea and think, 'I know, let's get one of the Top Gear team to present it.'"

"What we did was to let ordinary people speak for themselves. For years, working-class people were only ever on television if they were chavs or reality-show grotesques. But we got ordinary people back on the TV without anyone being told what to think by a celebrity presenter."

The second series moves from London to Scotland. And the first episode, about Edinburgh's New Town (BBC2, Friday 25 July), could not be further from the stories Bullman and his team uncovered in Deptford, Bermondsey, and the East End. "We spent a very moving day with a doctor called Bill Ayles. He greeted us in his tweed suit and had this stunning house where he was surrounded by tigers' heads from India and paintings of his ancestors.

He told me his family had come from east London but had then moved to their country estate. I told him that was the same as my family. Only our estates were council estates."

Š independent.co.uk

independent.co.uk http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/features/bbcs-the-secret-history-of-our-streets-reveals-a-fascinating-windowinto-britains-past-9627276.html

BBC's The Secret History of Our Streets reveals a fascinating window into Britain's past "This combination of historic stories with the personal attachment we have to our homes – and the national obsession with houses – creates a fascinating window into the past," says architectural historian and author Melanie Backe-Hansen. For fellow house detective Angela Lownie, who runs londonhousehistories.co.uk, "it's micro personalised history with which we can identify."

Social media has made us into curtain-twitchers, we're increasingly fascinated by genealogy, data about our family history is there at the click of a mouse, programmes such as Who Do You Think You Are? pose questions about our pasts. "The passion for family history extends into the history of our homes and streets," says BackeHansen.

The best of all the TV shows that have piqued our interest is The Secret History of Our Streets. It's the exact inverse of Benefits Street. Instead of cynicism, this exceptional series delivers warmth. Even though we watch the detailed history of a few houses on a street we've probably never even walked along, "...people respond because they see their own lives and their own streets. That's the secret of The Secret Life of Our Streets," believes producer Joe Bullman.

The stylishly shot series returns tomorrow night with three films looking at Scottish streets: elegant Moray Place in Edinburgh's Georgian New Town, solid Duke Street in Glasgow, and Aberdeen's eccentric former fishing enclave of Fittie.

"We've got this hunch that people's houses and streets matter," says Bullman – whose friendly way could snakecharm stories from anyone. "In each case we go to the street and hang around for long enough so that the story just emerges from the residents. You think it's a small story – because they're microcosmic actually, but then they become a gateway into these other things. The streets are like portals – if you bore down enough then amazing, mesmerising stories seep up through those paving stones."

Local hero: Moray Place resident Dr William Ayles (BBC) Whether exploring London or Scotland, the series does an incredible job of connecting people to places, of teasing out emotions from architecture, of reminding us that buildings and streets are the locations for our own happiest and saddest moments. Bullman's residents appear heroic – this is an unabashed celebration of normal folk and where they live, of people who are often overlooked. We see a picture of modern Britain forming before our eyes. It's enough to make you start talking to your neighbours again.

We're supposed to be a nation of loners, but The Secret History of Our Streets also celebrates community: how Fittie's fisherfolk shared whatever catch they had; how Duke Street's residents formed an early community housing trust to improve the tenements of Glasgow's East End. In tonight's episode, moustached architect Sir Basil Spence features. His practice was on Moray Place and there he designed some spectacular buildings. But in a blackly comic portion of archive we see him telling baffled residents of the Gorbals' maligned – possibly unfairly – new Hutchesontown "Hutchie C" superblocks he built, to grow peach trees on their balconies.

The architect Le Corbusier said that homes are machines for living. He was wrong – they're machines for loving.

Home is where we keep our family, home is where make more family. The Secret History of Our Streets deploys archive film and tattered photos to bring families to glorious life. There are stories of being taken to first Celtic games, of marriages, of bairns. Bricks and concrete are our collective memory vaults.

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edinburghnews.scotsman.com http://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/life-style/stories-behind-scotland-s-grandest-street-revealed-1-3476651

Stories behind Scotland’s grandest street revealed Along the hallway with its floral print wallpaper and through a panelled door is a storeroom piled with ladders, ironing board, books and the usual detritus of ordinary life.

Most of us have one at home. Käthe Paton, however, has one with quite possibly the grandest and most incredible of features, a curious addition to a hall cupboard that sheds fascinating light on a slice of posh Edinburgh life.

For up above the laden shelves are beautiful cornices which snake around the tops of three walls and hug a ceiling that is lavish in decorative detail. Even more surprising, however, is that it stops abruptly, sliced in half by a rogue wall beyond which, as Käthe gleefully points out by opening the door to an adjoining room, it continues on its beautifully crafted way.

The ceiling, it transpires, was once a spectacular feature of the Tenth Earl of Moray’s ballroom. Today, carved into pieces when one of the most palatial homes in the city was finally taken apart – too big and too expensive to possibly retain, the earl’s treasured city pile became a series of separate properties – it is just one of the many fascinating elements of life behind the walls of some of Edinburgh’s most exclusive households.

Usually carefully secreted behind wooden window shutters and swathes of expensive heavyweight curtains, the lives of the well-heeled families who today make their homes in what has been dubbed “Scotland’s grandest street” are revealed in a television programme which not only uncovers the history of their small but high-end western corner of the New Town but also the routes that took them there.

For some, entire lives have been lived within the boundaries of the Georgian streets which make up what is known as the Moray Estate – centred on Moray Place, Ainslie Place, Randolph Crescent and Doune Terrace, the peaceful Water of Leith on one boundary, the route on the other heading up towards the bustle of the New Town shops.

Others arrived to take on crumbling homes that, incredible as it may seem by today’s standards for one of the most desirable parts of town, no-one else wanted, paying eye-wateringly tiny amounts for ramshackle properties in the fifties and sixties that are today worth a small fortune.

And, more recently, is a new generation with very deep pockets and even bigger ambitions to lay down family roots alongside lords, high ranking professionals and the cream of city society.

Filmmaker Joseph Bullman ventured beyond the front doors of Moray Estate residents to uncover a snapshot of life in an “estate”, created by a 19th century toff with a vision of creating a village within the New Town.

The result, The Secret History of Our Streets, will be screened on BBC Two on Friday week at 9.25pm. If anything like programmes in the last series, which highlighted the life and history of a string of London streets, it could well have the nation talking.

“The first night of the first film and it trended on Twitter,” says Bullman, who ventured inside the Moray Place homes of half a dozen residents to find out who they were and what brought them to one of the most beautiful Georgian streets in Britain.

“A lot of people think the properties in the area are occupied by offices, solicitors, architects. To find they are actually homes is really quite surprising.”

Of course, these are far from “homes” as most of us might recognise. Built over five storeys, huge rooms bathed in light from enormous windows, warmed by the glow from giant fireplaces, a typical Moray Estate house of old was constructed to exact standards laid down by the tenth earl.

He owned the rolling pastures on the fringe of what was to become the New Town. As feudal lord, with his own set of rules and regulations, he determined what was allowed – and what wasn’t – within his small empire.

The first occupiers of Moray Place took up residence in 1825 and some of their descendants remain in the area today.

Among them is David Hope, otherwise known as Lord Hope of Craighead, the first deputy president of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, who has adhered to family traditions started by his great great grandfather Charles Hope – 12 Moray Place’s first resident – and lived in the Moray Estate throughout his life.

Remarkably, he went on to hold the same position as his forefather, both went on to become lord president of the Court of Session, nearly two centuries apart.

Born in Randolph Crescent, Lord Hope grew up in Moray Place and as a young man was introduced “to the girl next door but one”. She was the future Lady Mary Hope, their relationship sealed – as she recalls in the programme – at a “very riotous Burns Supper”.

Hardly the behaviour, perhaps, originally expected by the tenth earl when he ordered the construction of 28 Moray Place for his own use.

The grandest house on the estate with six large columns at its entrance, it sprawled over 11,000 square feet and was his personal foothold in the Capital for when he visited from his family pile in the north.

However, it was a palatial residence requiring at least a dozen staff. In common with the fate of many of the other townhouses on the New Town estate, death duties and rising taxes meant it and some of its grand neighbours would eventually be split into flats like Käthe’s home, commercial properties for lawyers and architects’ firms, and even private nursing homes and hospitals.

The tenth earl spent only a few years in his plush residence before selling and retreating north. His descendant, the 21st earl, features in the programme – today he is following in the footsteps of his forefather with plans to construct an estate of his own in the Highlands.

The mixture of residents’ backgrounds and the changing fortunes of the estate itself reflects Scottish society in miniature, says film maker Bullman, who was particularly touched by one resident, Dr Bill Ayles.

He bought his Moray Place property for £11,500 in 1965 and it became a lively home for him, wife Mary – whose voice was regularly heard by generations of youngsters on Children’s Hour – and their four children. Today he lives there alone, three children grown up, one deceased and his wife now resident in a nursing home.

Surrounded by photographs, paintings and family objects collected down the years of their lives together, the grand property is an overwhelming reminder of how different his life once was.

“She is in a nursing home with dementia and I see her twice a week or thereabouts,” he says. “The problem is when I get up to go home, she always thinks she is going to come too.”

Brigadier Allan Alstead and wife Joy, meanwhile, transformed a battered shell of a Moray Place property into a stunning home, carefully removing white paint from fireplaces to reveal their former glory. Today it is equally grand inside as the exterior would suggest.

The return of the estate to the family residences it was originally intended to house continues today. Ian Gray, who as a child used to visit the area and draw its Georgian townhouses for fun, has bought two properties, which he plans to return to a single sprawling family home for him, his wife Jackie and their two daughters.

With what he describes as a career in finance aided by “being in the right jobs at the right time”, he has snapped up the former offices and employed an architect to create an open plan kitchen, dining and family area which alone will stretch to 1700 square feet.

Standing on a vibrantly patterned outdated carpet and surrounded by red vinyl office chairs, the paint on the walls

peeling and the green mould growing behind him, it’s clear that behind the grand exterior there’s a lot of work to be done before the family can move in.

“The old money is being replaced by new money,” he says. “As the old money runs out of assets and relies on cash, people who were lucky enough to have made money in their careers, new money, they come in. It happens all over the world.”

• The Secret History of Our Streets, will be screened on BBC Two on Friday, July 25th, at 9.25pm

EPISODE TWO Glasgow

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TV: Damien Love reveals his pick of the week's TV Friday, August 1 The Secret History Of Our Streets 9pm, BBC Two Following last week's programme about Edinburgh's Moray Estate, the flawed but fascinating documentary show continues the Scottish tour of its second series with an episode devoted to Glasgow's Duke Street. At heart, The Secret History Of Our Streets explores the relationship between social history and urban planning: the way that real lives on the streets get caught up by the paper visions dreamed up by the people in the planning offices. At times, though, it can be a shade bit too simplistic in demonising the work of planners and architects who were struggling to battle the worst of slum living. It's a theme to the fore again tonight. The longest street in Britain, Duke Street runs from Glasgow's city centre to the heart of the East End, lined to the south by elegant Victorian tenements. 40 years ago, the buildings were under threat of demolition, and residents banded together to take on the city fathers and save their homes. Exploring their story sheds light on the Duke Street that used to be, the tenements that were pulled down, and the history of deprivation and disruption the area has endured - not to mention the community spirit it has produced.

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EPISODE SYNOPSES

Episode 1 -­‐ The Moray Estate, Edinburgh (TX -­‐ 25 July at 9pm on BBC 2)

BBC 2's multi-­‐award winning The 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 the crossroads of historic change, Secret Streets travels to Scotland to tell the stories of three archetypal streets in three Scottish cities: Edinburgh, Glasgow and Aberdeen.

Endlessly surprising, the stories of these streets are the story of a nation.

Director Joseph Bullman (Secret History of Our Streets, The Seven Sins of England) visits Edinburgh’s New Town – where he discovers a street unlike any you could find in England.

The Moray estate is a single development with the longest Georgian Terrace in Europe. Built in the 18th century, this street has been home to Scotland’s elite for 200 years. Its residents have opened their front doors to the cameras and talked with a surprising frankness about their neighbourhood.

This is the last bastion of the British Empire – with architecture and a people seemingly from another time.

Episode one, which visits The Moray Estate, Edinburgh, is scheduled for the 25 July followed by films shot in Duke Street, Glasgow and Footdee, Aberdeen.

Produced and Directed by: Mary Crisp Executive Producers: Katie Bailiff and Simon Ford

Episode 2 -­‐ Duke Street, Glasgow (TX -­‐ 1 August at 9pm on BBC 2)

BBC 2's multi-­‐award winning The 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 the crossroads of historic change, Secret Streets travels to Scotland to tell the stories of three archetypal streets in three Scottish cities: Edinburgh, Glasgow and Aberdeen.

Endlessly surprising, the stories of these streets are the story of a nation.

Director Russell England (Secret History of Our Streets, Who Do You Think You Are?) visits Duke Street in Glasgow.

Duke Street is Britain’s longest street, running from Glasgow City Centre through the heart of Glasgow’s East End. Elegant Victorian tenement blocks line the road to the south of Duke Street.

Yet just 40 years ago, those tenements were under threat. This is the story of how a group of pioneering residents took on the Glasgow Corporation in a battle to save their homes.

Episode two, which visits Duke Street, Glasgow, is scheduled for the 1 August and is the penultimate episode in the series. The final film is shot in Footdee, Aberdeen.

Produced and Directed by: Russell England Executive Producers: Katie Bailiff and Simon Ford

Episode 3 -­‐ The Fittie Squares, Aberdeen (TX -­‐ 8 August at 9pm on BBC 2)

BBC 2's multi-­‐award winning The 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 the crossroads of historic change, Secret Streets travels to Scotland to tell the stories of three archetypal streets in three Scottish cities: Edinburgh, Glasgow and Aberdeen.

Endlessly surprising, the stories of these streets are the story of a nation.

Director Mary Crisp (Secret History of Our Streets, Who Do You Think You Are?) visits The Fittie Squares in Aberdeen.

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.

Episode three, which visits The Fittie Squares, Aberdeen, is scheduled for the 8 August and is the final episode in the series.

Produced and Directed by: Mary Crisp Executive Producers: Katie Bailiff and Simon Ford