7th December
In September 1934, residents of the newly-built Florence Park estate went on rent strike. Hundreds of people withheld their rents in protest at the conditions they were expected to live in by developer of the estate Fred Moss.
Moss built 600 houses to meet the needs of the hundreds of men and women starting work at the Morris Motors and Pressed Steel factories in East Oxford. These workers had migrated from South Wales, Tyneside and the North, areas hit hard by the Great Depression, in search of employment. The families who moved onto the estate soon discovered, however, that their homes, built cheaply by unskilled labourers, were starting to fall apart.
After months of ignored complaints, the residents of the Florence Park estate embarked on a rent strike, during which they faced intimidation and evictions. Little Edens tells this story.
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