Dan Cruickshank explores our love affair with the terrace - the home that more Britons live in than any other. We love it because it has proved brilliantly adaptable, encompassing the Victorian parlour and modern open-plan living with equal ease. Dan is in Toxteth, Liverpool 8. Famous for the riots that ripped it apart in the 1980s, Toxteth has a far richer and more varied history than that one tragic episode. Liverpool was the ultimate Victorian boom town, turned by trade and industry from provincial powerhouse into the second city of empire. 100,000 terraced houses were built to accommodate its vast workforce, with huge numbers in Toxteth. From a high of Victorian industry and immigration to a low of postwar decline, Toxteth's terraces have seen it all - even the 2015 Turner Prize, awarded for their remarkable 21st-century regeneration.

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1. Only the best for our Immigrants.
2. Terrace Houses are now the bane of British housing because you can't knock down individual houses and build something better we're trapped.
3. terrible sound quality
4. silly old fart
5. Very good documentary. It is important to show historical aspects of a dwelling in a large city, as it can be seen in the video. This kind of matter explains the causes of Liverpool's architecture format and tells us in details how a city can be modified in many situations by a large movement of immigrants settling in a place for job opportunities.
6. Really sad how they show the descendant of immigrants in the redone terrace house instead of the native British. Typical BBC always cheering on the ethnic cleansing. Typical Neo-racist behavior.
7. but those poor brick workers bending over like that moving bricks, it must have eventually ruined their lower backs.
8. 100,00,00,000 times better than living in a high rise!!!!
9. I live in a terrace house
10. IMMIGRANTS DOING WHAT THEY DO BEST -- RIOTING
11. I love a good British documentary!
12. good
13. thanks love ur videos!
14. Thanks for sharing this, I missed out on the original program