The BBC2 documentary "SIX SIDES OF A SQUARE: WORLDS OF THEIR OWN."
BBC Programme No: LGF6521X. Recorded November 1965 - Transmitted 15th March 1966

Original Synopsis from BBC archive: Film of two children who both live in Gibson Square, Islington. The young boy comes from a working class home and lives in a basement flat in the square, his friend lives in a large house in the square, and she goes to a private school. Var s of children playing in the garden of Gibson Square in islington appear throughout the film. The parents of two of the children that live in Gibson Square, Islington talk about the education they are giving their children and what they expect their children to do when they lieave school. The working class family send their son to a council school, and have little idea of the methods of education used there, while the upper class family have chosed to send their children to a private progressive school. Var s of schoolchildren at a progressive school in Hampstead, children read stories, speak French etc. Headmistress talks about the aims of the school and its methods. S of children in playground and in

As already mentioned, I have removed all parts of the program that were filmed at the LCC School, and the interviews with the respective parents in their own homes, and other private aspects of the interviews, leaving just a short clip of Sabrina"s mother as she describs her first impressions of The Town & Country School.

This reduces the running time from 30 minutes down to just 8 minutes, however to keep the quality as high as reasonable for the web, still requires quite a large video file - 75Mb. You can right click the video itself to view full screen, which makes it more watchable.

"Windows Media Video" and "Quicktime as the main formats, and providing your interent connection is reasonably fast you should be able to view the whole video without interruption due to buffering, using the player below. If you are using an Apple/Mac/ipad system, then please scroll further down the page or if it is a smartphone or tablet even further down.

If you experience problems with the stream, you have the option of downloading the entire file first, and then use "Windows Media Player" to view it locally.
PLEASE NOTE THE FILES ARE LARGE - THERE WILL BE A DELAY BEFORE THE VIDEO STARTS TO PLAY.



RIGHT-CLICK HERE and then choose "Save Target as..." to download a copy of the video to your hard drive to ensure smooth running of video.

FOR THOSE USING APPLE Macs or Ipads, below is the quicktime version of the video
PLEASE NOTE THE FILES ARE LARGE - THERE WILL BE A DELAY BEFORE THE VIDEO STARTS TO PLAY.



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If you find that you cannot play the video let me know the details and I will try to include a format to suit your system norman@stmarystownandcountryschool.com

Any feedback regarding the film would also be appreciated. Finally thanks to Sabrina Crewe for sending me a copy of the original. This video is copyright BBC © and is reproduced in part here, under the fair use act, see the Understanding Fair Use fact sheet from UK Copyright Service. I am advised that some time ago the BBC deleted all six parts of the series, which were really an interesting social document of the time, from their archive. We are fortunate to have this episode saved by the Crewes.