Homes for heroes, Woodmansterne Lane
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Homes for heroes, Woodmansterne Lane
Image: © Christopher Hilton Taken: 10 May 2013
Along Woodmansterne Lane and around it on the surrounding fields are many of these black clapboarded semi-detached houses. A terracotta plaque on the pair opposite this reads "SCC 1920", indicating that they were put up by Surrey County Council immediately after the First World War; they were a conscious attempt to set up smallholdings for demobbed soldiers.
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Image Location
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51.342414
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-0.152317