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Homebuying simplified - with the CIS Plan. Advert issued by the Co-operative Insurance Society, 1949

What a dream this must have been in the late 1940s - that decade when with war and austerity basic things such as wanting a good home seemed out of reach for millions. By the turn of the decade the pace of both public and private house building picked up and so home purchase, alongside rising living standrads became more affordable and achieveable - with mortgages available from financial institutions such as the CIS.

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Uploaded on January 22, 2017
Taken on May 9, 2016