TileHillKid.UK - Duggins Lane WW2 Hostel
Duggins Lane Hostel,
Tile Hill was built on farmland just off Tanners Lane-Tile Hill Lane. Opened
12th April 1943 for Aircraft production workers, the Hostel housed between 600
and 1500 residents from all over Britain, who worked at the Standard Motors
factory at Canley, Fisher and Ludlow, and Massey Ferguson works at Banner Lane.
One block was used to house actors and dance bands, who performed plays and
other entertainment.
Between 1946 and 1952, newly married couples stayed on as 'squatters', long
after the war. Eventually new council housing estates were completed in Canley,
Tile Hill North and Tile Hill South and the squatters were transferred to those.
During the really harsh winter of 1947, families had no heating, so the council
took control of the Hostel, charged a nominal rent, and installed coal ranges.
Many couples were quite happy living there. Houseowners in Duggins Lane weren't
happy; they had been promised that after the war, the Hostel would be demolished
and everything would be put back to how it was, but that didn't happen until
long after 1952.
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