Tuesday 25 February – Janet Morris: Solving the Housing Problem
The talk is about why there was a housing crisis after the First World War and one rather unusual way of solving it, at least on a temporary basis. The emphasis is mainly on Linton Rural District Council but with examples from Chesterton Rural District Council, particularly Histon, and the intention is to encourage others to look for examples from their own area and record them.
The poster shows both the outside and inside of a railway cottage at Histon.
Janet Morris is a founder member and long-time secretary of West Wickham & District Local History Club. She is also a former secretary and current Council member of Cambridge Antiquarian Society and is on the editorial board of the Cambridgeshire Association for Local History Review.
Village Society meetings take place in term time at 7.30pm usually on the last Tuesday of the month at Impington Village College in the Brackenbury Room.
Membership is £12 per annum, visitors are welcome at £3 per person per meeting.
For further information on the village Society contact Wendy Doyle handivsoc@gmail.com
