The Wynford Towers in Maryhill have been demolished. Here’s a bit of history behind the 26-storey structures.
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00:00The Winford Towers were brought down at the weekend to make space for new affordable homes.
00:04People gathered to watch the demolition of three 26-storey high-rise flats
00:09on the Winford Estate in Maryhill that were erected in the 1960s.
00:14Decades worth of memories for hundreds of people were brought down in just a few minutes.
00:19Here's a wee bit of history behind the towers.
00:22They were built on a 55-acre site at the old Maryhill Barracks,
00:26with each block including 150 flats housing around 1,900 families,
00:33which equates to around 6,000 people.
00:366,000 lives at any one time shaped within these structures.
00:40Part of a larger housing development,
00:42these particular towers were put up between 1965 and 1969.
00:48Community was at the forefront of design,
00:50heavily influenced by townscape architectural planning popular among the 1950s.
00:56It was organised to incite a communal feeling among tenants.
01:00Each floor had six flats, which were all connected by a communal balcony
01:05intended to recreate the working-class stairheed and encourage neighbourliness.
01:11The prospect of this demolition was the subject of a row
01:14between local residents and the housing association who owned them, Wheatley Homes.
01:20Residents campaigned against the plan,
01:23arguing for a retrofit option,
01:25but Wheatley Homes said they could not feasibly be altered to meet modern floorspace standards.
01:31386 affordable homes will be built in their place, with 85% available for social rent.