BRITAIN’S NEW HOSTEL TOWNS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 77, 5 February 1942, Page 4

BRITAIN’S NEW HOSTEL TOWNS

I RUN UP HER BUILDING BILL TO £ 1.000.000 A DAY I Hostel towns arc springing up throughout Great Britain around the new factories, some of them covering a square mile of land, for making munitions and other war material. The factories have to be built we-l away from congested areas, and. instead of travelling long distances backwar d and forwards can now live on the sp t in huts built in parts elsewhere and assembling where required along with canteens, refrigerated stores, emergency hospitals and shops. After the war. all these buildings c;m easily be taken down and put up again where wanted. They are a considerable item in Britain’s building bill of £1.000.000 a day. Army camps and aerodromes are also going up all over the country, and for the “Home From” there are air-raid shelters, first aid I posts, rest centres, emergency housing and feeding centres. Even tempora y shops are put up in “blitzed” towns to carry on without interruption the distribution of food and other essentia >. i In Coventry whole rows of these sho: < j were run up lor the bom bed-ou* traders. Practically all this v.ar-time build j ine’ is under the ai recti on of Government departments, working through tfi«> j Ministry of Works and Public Buifi.fi . « (set up about a year ago under tiie fi.I lection of Lord Keith.