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The huge hutted camps were later used by
displaced persons from Europe. Then Irish labourers building
Harwell occupied them followed by squatters and people waiting
to be rehoused in new council houses being built at Kennington,
Drayton, Stonehill Lane and Latton Close. Eventually the 30
acres of derelict hut sites were demolished for housing. Describing
life in the village before the war Sybil Beard wrote in Letter
to Pippa, "Except for the houses of the gentry, such
as Kingston House, there were no taps, sinks, drains, indoor
loos or baths. All our water was drawn from the pump in the
front yard. In winter it froze and a red hot poker would be
put down it to encourage it to release its water out of the
lead spout." After the war, however, one advantage was
that the public sewers constructed in wartime to serve hutted
camps formed the basis of the village scheme.
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