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Planned in May 1943 as 150 acres for 964 houses and started in December 1945. Mr Reg Mitchell has told me that his family were one of the first, if not the first, tenants to move on to the estate. His father was Mr Arthur E Mitchell, who was the General Foreman for Messrs J Laing, that were building the estate. He moved into number 21 Teign Road just ahead, it is believed, of Mr Ron King at number 35. Mr King later went on to became a City Councillor. Mr Mitchell was one of the evacuees from London during the Second World War. Reg recalls that the Nissen huts at the bottom of Teign Road that previously housed Italian prisoners of war were used as a Community Centre, where films were shown weekly. In May 1949, at the time of the Municipal Election, the Labour Council claimed that on the Efford Estate 924 houses and flats had been laid out, and 878 had been completed and were occupied.
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