Originally Posted by
gregs dad
We left Liverpool in 1957 for Kirkby, Kirkby later became a borough council and started building their own houses. We live in the first houses they built on Tower Hill, ours was the show house which the council were shown as a sample of what they would look like,so we ended up with door frames etc; being very true.
First phase of Tower Hill was built at a cost of £4,700 per unit the second phase the council built to the minimal standard that was allowed for council tenants costing only £2,700 a unit.
Even to this day people ask "do you live on the `lecky side or the gas side"
There are no stud walls on the first phase houses all interior walls are breeze blocks.
Went from paying £1 19s 11d rent in Westvale to £4 13s on Tower Hill, hence the famous rent strike
Don`t know what the rents are now as very few are council tenants, nearly everybody has bought them now.
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