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decide to follow the path by which stands Patricia and Charles’ prefab.
By chance, I arrive at its end as Rose is coming home. Rose is 87 and
nothing has been moved in her prefab since she settled there 30 years
ago. Everything is old-fashioned and shabby. The only modern picture
in the living room is a little framed photo of Princess Diana on the
tea table. Rose is sad and bitter. “When I moved here, I was told
it would be temporary. The Council was to pull down the prefabs in order
to build new bungalows instead and that I could have one”. Thirty
years later, Rose is still living temporarily. |
Alan
Mason has been living on Dolphin Road, Redditch, for only two years but
he was soon to be involved in the struggle for saving the prefabs. Nina,
his second wife, spent almost all her life at number 31, together with
her brother Richard and their parents. Alan is the leader of the battle
against the demolition of the prefabs. When I meet him at the end of
October, the atmosphere is tense. The Council asked the tenants to vote
in a ballot for one of the three options: the prefabs are saved but with
a minimum of maintenance; they are pulled down and decent accommodation
for the tenants; the prefabs are saved with a complete rehabilitation.
The last option seems too good to be true to Alan and his fellow tenants.
Eventually, they commonly decided to vote for the first option. Now the
prefabs are temporarily. |
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