From Edna Burgu's autobiography: We were moving into our own house and what’s more we were moving up into a middle class area as opposed to a council estate. Mum and Dad’s house was on the other corner of the block created by Westfield Road, where we were to live, Midfield Avenue, Eastleigh road where Mum and Dad lived and Manor Way, where Auntie Florrie and Uncle George lived. There were still some council houses in the area but you wouldn’t have known. They were houses that had come into the council’s possession when the owners could not make the mortgage repayments. City business people owned most of the houses and they were very wary about a ‘common’ plumber and his family moving there. We were back dealing with the class system again and it was to take a couple of years before we were completely accepted.
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