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Bartholomew Road, Squat Visit 1973

Archive type: Video
Archive ID: lcva_82264
Date: 1973
Location: North London
Chroma: B/W
Duration: 00:05:59
Credits: View

A short black-and-white video of a tour of Bartholomew Road’s squatted home.

A man introduces the house as, “A home for poor people who can’t afford homes. People who live here are working-class, lower-middle-class students.” Estate agents have taken over the house and are repainting it and renovating it. The man takes the camera on a tour throughout the home, showing the light paint work in the living room, the bathroom and the kitchen-studio on the top floor. Another man enters the video and suggests that the home is being sold for £20,000.

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