A White paper introduced the proposed new Education Bill. Children would be required to stay at school until they were 15. The well known prefab houses were introduced this year. They were designed to relieve the social housing problem we were left with after the war when the men demobed. Although they were meant to be a stop gap until new brick houses were built, many of them are still standing today.
Labour come into power with a landslide victory.
The new Prime Minister was Clement Attlee. America dropped the Atom bomb on Japan, it ended the Second World War. The Prime Minister reported that Britain was broke. Despite the fact that the war had ended British families had their rations tightened by the Labour Government. It must have been quite a depressing time because there was still a lot of world unrest and unresolved arguments between countries.