Hauliers cared for staff 70 years ago
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BACK in 1914, as a war that was to reshape the world was beginning, 12 cottages were built in Barnet, Herts, to house hauliers' needy former employees. The benefactors, Sutton and Co and Sutton and Co (Manchester), were lost in the British Transport Commission but happily the charity survived.
The cottages, built on three sides of a large open square laid out with lawns, paths, rose beds and (rather tactlessly) cypress trees, and each with its own small garden, have passed to the National Freight Consortium and are administered by a trust. Past or present employees of any NFC subsidiary qualify for residence in this quiet backwater of bustling Barnet, thanks to the generosity of two Victorian family-owned firms.