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'Like being in heaven' - Sheffield's Park Hill flats

57 year old Charlie is mesmerised by 1966 footage of him as a boy in Sheffield's inner-city Park Hill flats.

The large council estate replaced slum housing in the 1950s.

The flats were 'like being in heaven' according to one resident in the archive film - but Charlie is taken aback when he hears his father's thoughts about his high-rise home.

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