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When we look at how people live we often do so from our own experiences as settled people in a society less nomadic than it was in past or how it may be elsewhere in the world.

Some people still live in caravans travelling along their way, finding work or other opportunities to earn some money.

There has been an increase in the numbers of people living on barges aka narrow boats in recent years which some families did at the height of the commercial usage of canals taking goods distances to market.

My mothers family did traversing North Worcestershire and the Black Country through this district in North Staffordshire to the Ports at Runcorn in Cheshire before settling "ashore" here

This group of houses were a part of those "homes ashore" built by the company that employed them as changes in society such as the impact on children's education and access to health care became more recognized and older workers needed to retire.

It seems history is repeating itself.