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Nov 21, 2017 · It won’t surprise you to learn that there has been a 40% decrease in the proportion of the population living in social housing since 1967, according to EHS data. Fifty years ago nearly a third of the English population, 29%, lived in social housing. This has dropped to 17%.
We’ve already looked at Reading’s rites of passage, things you need to have done to be truly from Reading. Now we look at what the town's older generation fondly remember from the 1950s, 60s...
Aug 5, 2016 · Caversham Bridge, showing the Reading Festival site and Richfield Avenue (on the left) before Rivermead Leisure Centre was built 11 of 23 Aerial views of Reading. 26th October 1976. 12 of 23
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Jul 24, 2018 · Some people still live in prefabs, some 70 years after they were built, which had an assumed lifetime of just ten years. 4. There were prefabs all over the world. The UK was not the only country to use prefabs as a temporary solution to house people after the war.
Apr 14, 2015 · From Lloyd George's promise of "homes fit for heroes" to Margaret Thatcher's dream of a property-owning democracy, housing has been at the centre of British politics for more than a century.
Nov 14, 2017 · This report summarises the background, methodology and findings of the first national house condition survey, conducted in England and Wales in 1967. The report was originally published in 1968.
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In the 1960s and 70s more homes were built in the UK than at any other time, including over 425,000 in 1968. Residential tower blocks were a major part of the new housing mix: about 55,000 were built in this period – over 400,000 homes. Public disapproval of tower blocks quickly grew.
