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The Happy Family
UNITED KINGDOM · 1952

The Happy Family

Muriel Box
property rights government vs individual small business urban development family resistance
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Synopsis

When the Government decide to build a Festival of Britain exhibition site, everything goes to plan, all except the fact that the main road and the pedestrian subway into the site, are blocked by a little corner shop, which is owned and run by a Mr. Lord and his family. When the Lords refuse to be bought off, and decline the compensation offered by the authorities. the police and the bailiffs try t

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