People there perhaps don't realise it, but this year marks the 60th anniversary of the building of the first house in the Arbury area of Cambridge.
At the time in 1955, the city was facing a massive housing shortage. There were council houses for rent, but not many of them. Just after the First World War, the first blocks of homes built by the council, then called the Corporation, went up in Stanley Road, and in 1920 a borough housing scheme of 100 homes got under way on land between Hills...
