This new compilation gathers together over 60 artists for an album recorded during the COVID19 lockdown, and raising money for the Cavell Trust, helping nurses and ex-nurses.
The first Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan song can be heard on the CD part of the release.
The Warrington-Runcorn Development Committee commisioned this music in early 1979 as the soundtrack of a short film to publicise the work of the Committee in providing a thriving cultural life for the residents of the new estates of Warrington and Runcorn. Excerpts were shown later that year on BBC’s Nationwide.
Coming soon.
1979 marked a change in the political and wider culture of British society. The Warrington-Runcorn development marks the swan song of post-war urban planning in the UK – soon the ethos of building better communities would be replaced by Thatcherite “no such thing as society” greed. And look where that got us.
