Tribunal?

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   I believe that at some point during WW2 the local landowner (East Kent) tried to get my grandfather to leave the cottage he had lived in for most of his life. According to my uncle, his sister (my mother) fought this proposal, probably wearing her WAAF uniform, and won.
   Does anyone know where this would have happened? I presume something like a board of agriculture would have been involved.

[panda40]

What was the name of your grandfather?
Regards
Panda

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  Stanley Pay

[mazi]

In 1939 full control of private rented property was reimposed,  giving security of tenure and control over rental charges.

Prior to that repossession was usually granted by the courts, but I suspect in wartime it was administered by a local rent tribunal,  intended to last the duration of the war it actually continued long after, possibly to the mid fifties.



Mike

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   Thanks Mike, I was thinking it would be something of that sort. Might the records be in the county archives? I wasn't sure if it would be local or national, being wartime?

[mazi]

I am not old enough to remember, I was only 3 

In the 1950s it was a local government function. Eiither county borough or rural district council.

Kent archives is the most likely place, but they may be lying in a box somewhere, still uninexed.

Mike