Homes for heroes: 100 years of council housing – a cartoon

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In 1919 hoping to address a desperate need for housing, councils started to build. Tony Forbes and Eugene Byrne’s cartoon traces the impact that municipal housing has had Bristol in particular

Christopher Addison’s 1919 Housing and Town Planning Act gave Bristol and other councils the power and means to create the UK’s first housing estates. In Bristol, it was Addison himself who dug the first ground on the council’s first post-war estate in June 1919 at a tree-planting ceremony.

 

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