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The SoldierSettlement

After WW2 , to help solve the unemployment problem of the returned soldiers and the oncoming Depression, the Government offered "Soldier Settlements'. Small acreages of land were given out and a sum of money to build a house and get a farm started. Sadly, the land was too poor to grow good crops on such small allotments, and the scheme was a failure, Driving past I took this shot of one of the houses with the communal machinery etc, piled around it - a field of broken dreams!

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Uploaded on March 20, 2014
Taken on January 23, 2014