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1971: The Man Who MODERNISED BIRMINGHAM | Miracles Take A Little Longer | BBC Archive
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14:38Now Playing"We would knock down these bloody awful buildings and give them a chance to live in a decent way, as they deserved, because they were decent, decent people."
Sir Frank Price - the former Lord Mayor of Birmingham - recalls how growing up in the impoverished back-to-backs of Hockley made him determined to modernise the inner city, and improve the living conditions for the city's working class residents.
This clip is from Miracles Take A Little Longer, originally broadcast 31 July, 1971.
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