Practical Christianity
Received Monday, i p.m. LONDON, August 28. Mr. Francis Chivers, the ordnance factory policeman who last April won £75,000 in a football pool, bought a modern semi-detached house for £2000 to provide accommodation for a homeless Fleetwood woman with four yoimg children. The woman, the English wife of a Dntch fisherman, had slept with her children first in a bus shelter and then in a Sunday schoo] hall after they had been forced to leave a prefabricated house they had been sharing with a relative, owing to the enicu'c^uent oi ,.thd. borottgh overcrowding regulations. Hearing ahout her piight, Mr, Ohivers hought the house and presented her with the keys, so they could move in immediately at any rent. they feel able to pay.
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Chronicle (Levin), 31 August 1948, Page 5
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