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Plymouth Avenue

Post war self-build development
By Sam Carroll, Bevendean resident
Photo:The plaque on the wall in Plymouth Avenue commemorates the post-war volunteer labourers who built their own houses. Sam Carroll's uncle was one of them.
Photo:Close up of the plaque
Photo:The Hedgehog self build co-operative in Bevendean, where Sam now lives. There are nine families in adjacent homes.
Photo:A fun day for the co-operative

"The houses in Plymouth Avenue were a post war self build development. There is a plaque commemorating those involved on one of the house walls. It is a little weathered today but I can still make out the name of my uncle Bill Lemon.

It says "The Brighton Ex-Servicemens Housing Society Limited. To commemorate that these twenty houses numbered 45-83 were built by the voluntary labour of the undermentioned members."

Sam later followed in her uncle's footsteps by joining the Hedgehog self build co-operative in Bevendean.

Submitted to website 7-12-2002
This page was added on 22/03/2006.

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