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Title: MURRAYFIELD: What Kind of Future?

Reference number: 3791

Date: 1986

Director: filmed by Pete Gregson

Production company: Commedia Film Link

Sound: sound

Original format: U-Matic (hi-band)

Colour: col

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 26.00 mins

Description: In 1961 British Leyland sited a car plant at Bathgate, West Lothian and the Murrayfield Housing estate was built to provide homes for the workers. 25 years later the car plant is facing closure and the housing conditions on the estate are amongst the worst in Scotland. Tenants are campaigning for money to convert their decrepit multi storeys and leaking timbertop and need £5m to make the estate worth living in.

See also refs: 3792, 3796, 4390

Credits: Murrayfield Environmental Improvements Committee presents

made by Pete Gregson, Commedia
techniocal asst. Kyle Moffat
co-ordination by Carol Stewart
Copyright 1985

Shotlist: In 1961 British Leyland sited a car plant at Bathgate, West Lothian and the Murrayfield Housing estate was built to provide homes for the workers. 25 years later the car plant is facing closure and the housing conditions on the estate are amongst the worst in Scotland. Tenants are campaigning for money to convert their decrepit multi storeys and leaking timbertop and need £5m to make the estate worth living in (26.00)