Wythenshawe's Tin Town has the city's rarest homes - and a special story to tell
manchestereveningnews.co.ukStanding on the doorstep of the house he's lived in since he was two-years-old, Martin Mason points to the cracks in the cul-de-sac outside. "We used to have bonfires in the middle of the road," the 75-year-old says. "The tin roofs of the houses would be bouncing up and down with the heat.
It got so hot the road cracked. "After a few years we had to pack it in because the fire brigade came round and told us to stop." Martin and his parents moved into their three-bed council house on Rogate Drive in Wythenshawe's 'Tin Town' in June 1948. READ MORE: Life on the council estate street with a motorway running down the middle Across the country thousands of other families were settling into almost identical homes.
As troops returned home following the Second World War a shattered Britain was suffering a severe housing, labour and materials shortage.
The Government, possibly fearing a repeat of the turmoil which marked the end of the First World War when David Lloyd George's 'Homes fit for heroes' pledge was never quite delivered upon, quickly established an emergency housing programme.
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