After many years of debate, the Redditch Development Corporation, decided that the new town shopping centre should be sited in the current town centre. To do this, many of the historic streets which formed the heart of the existing town, were marked for demolition and redevelopment.
For a ten year period, from 1973 to 1983, the face of Redditch town centre was changed for ever. Town landmarks, family homes, offices, shops and factories were razed to the ground. People & business had to move. Some survived and some did not. The result is often debated as to whether it was good or bad. Loss of history & heritage is always bad and the modern shopping complex we have today is not to everybody's taste. However, ask yourself the question what would the town be like without the development? What sort of town would the run-
People under forty, and those who moved to the new town in the 1980’s, have no memories of those lost streets. People who do remember them do so with perhaps rose-
To access the Lost Streets site, click the icon on the right the select Streets by Property or Streets by Name from the menu on the left.
The Remembering Lost Redditch was our original site containing the Lost Streets data. Whilst the Redditch Virtual Museum site is being constructed you can still access the Lost Streets data there. Click the icon on the right to visit that site.
Walford Street with St. Stephen’s spire in the background
Note: There is a considerable amount of work to re-