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The second world war left enormous scars across Britain. The bombing had either destroyed or made uninhabitable a million homes and there was a major housing shortage. All the political parties agreed that an ambitious reconstruction programme was needed and optimism to build a better Britain was in the air.
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Source: theguardian.com