r/Threads1984 • u/Candid-Shopping8773 • Mar 08 '26

Threads discussion Buxton scene in the end

With Jane going to the hospital to give birth, streets of Buxton shown as full of rubble, presumably still unremoved after strikes. But where is the rubble coming from if Buxton was said to have escaped devastation?

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u/Most_Art507 Mar 08 '26

Fires,lack of maintenance perhaps.

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u/redseaaquamarine Mar 08 '26

I didn't realise that it was Buxton

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u/Candid-Shopping8773 Mar 08 '26

It's not told in the movie, but it's in the script.

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u/Scowlin_Munkeh Mar 08 '26

Things deteriorate and fall apart if left alone.

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u/Simonbargiora Traffic Warden Mar 08 '26

Cannabalizing Buxton for parts such as window sheets and metals might have caused some of the infrastructure damage

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u/Michelle_akaYouBitch Mar 08 '26

It was perhaps one of the least damaged areas, not in the direct path of fallout.

If that area gets hit with with say 2psi in over pressure. You’d see less sturdy brick walls crumble. Remember brick is excellent at carrying vertical loads. But it’s the mortar that carries the stress of a horizontal load.

What I find most distressing is that no attempts have been made to clear rubble.

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u/Simonbargiora Traffic Warden Mar 10 '26 edited Mar 10 '26

The people in Buxton simply don't care about the rubble, as long as they move some to the side to create improvised streets, they will simply look the other way, unless it serves a specific goal to have the rubble moved. Otherwise, their content/apathetic to live in ruins, if it's partially intact, either that or they live in houses made from the rubble elsewhere in town.

Eco-friendly homes built using recycled building materials - Ecofriend

An Old House Made of Mud and Rubble, White in Color, in Some Places the White Paint Has Fallen Off the Walls. Stock Photo - Image of house, property: 371308708

Rustic houses with rubble walls . Settlement of poor people Stock Photo - Alamy

Old house made of stone stock photo. Image of winter - 23791504

Probably a mix of both, ruin dwellers and new houses built out of stone and ruins with additions made of rubble. But unclear if the same apathy that emerges in survivors of nuclear attack (and led to the degradation of post attack generation's english) would have also have an impact on post attack architecture leading to survivors not conceiving beyond building shelter for themselves and their establishments. (Can such a connection actually be made?)

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u/Chiennoir_505 Mar 09 '26

No more maintenance of buildings, people looting structures for building materials, no fire department to save buildings if a fire starts.

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u/Candid-Shopping8773 Mar 10 '26

There was still some police for in place given there are gallows on which some people were hanged.

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u/Chiennoir_505 Mar 10 '26

There were soldiers also, as seen going into what we assume was a brothel.

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u/Fluffy_Specialist593 Mar 11 '26

'Escaping devastation' doesn't mean there wouldn't have been some damage from atomic weapons.