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Mining Review 7/12: At Home (1954)
 

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The Coal Board's programme calls for 20,000 new houses for miners throughout the country. In the West Midlands alone, nearly 5,000 are going up, and they're going up fast, to rationalise systems of building such as this, where factory-made units are swung into place in double-quick time.

At 97 Coppice Drive, Dordon, near Atherstone, there was a brief ceremony the other day to hand over the key to 29-year-old miner P.J. Gallagher and his family, on the completion of an estate of 234 houses.

While tea was served in a neighbouring marquee, the Gallaghers' furniture was shifted in with clockwork precision. After the opening ceremonies, the Gallaghers were left to settle in. Patrick and Jean, the children, will find Warwickshire a change from their native Lancashire!