Cambridge Daily News 6 and 9 May 1946: Squatters in army huts

Squatters at Army huts Trumpington Rd; 21 huts in camp, 7 claimed, the rest locked by Military Police who had no power to eject them. The soldiers who had been living in them had been billeted outside to make room for the garrison engineer and staff who would soon have to move out of requisitioned house next door.

Squatters occupy old ‘ack ack’ site Long Road, at ‘Leighton’ Trumpington Rd and Madingley Rd huts that NFS HQ; had been empty for a year and were to have been taken over by Ministry of Works for milk testing