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Ours to Keep

  • 1985
  • Ended
  • 1 season

Six films about people determined to defend historic buildings against the destructive effects of social change and market forces.

Latest: Miniseries · 1985

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  1. E1. Selling Shilstone

    Feb 28, 1985 · 39m

    A widow forced to sell her late parents' Dartmoor farmhouse may have other options after a National Parks adviser identified parts of it as medieval.

  2. E2. Incomers

    Mar 7, 1985 · 39m

    The Spitalfields Historic Buildings Preservation Trust succeeded in thwarting the property developers who wanted to sweep away derelict buildings to build profitable office blocks.

  3. E3. Millstones

    Mar 14, 1985 · 39m

    Three men seek to preserve redundant textile mills in West Yorkshire's Calder Valley -- buildings in Halifax, Hebden Bridge and Todmorden.

  4. E4. The Rev David Wyatt's Seven Deadly Sins

    Mar 21, 1985 · 39m

    The Rev David Wyatt fights to save Manchester's remaining Victorian churches.

  5. E5. Defence of the Realm

    Mar 28, 1985 · 39m

    Shipwright Brian Patterson and his Portsmouth Royal Dockyard Historical Society fought to have the dockyard designated a heritage centre.

  6. E6. Living on the Past

    Apr 4, 1985 · 39m

    The people of York seek to combine modern amenities with their medieval and Viking past. Last programme of the series.