SLIPPING HOUSES
Houses built only six years ago are slipping off their foundations, in Stanley, Durham, and tenants can see from one room to another through largo cracks. Colliery workings are tho cause of the trouble. In the Annfield Plain Intermediate School a classroom has been closed as unsafe owing to subsidence, and a £IOO,OOO road in course of construction from Shield Row has sunk two feet in some places.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21473, 22 April 1933, Page 2 (Supplement)
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