1953 Press Photo Actress Daphne Padel

Daphne Padel builds a House and beats the price ring too: Daphne Padel, stage and radio star, wanted to build a single storey, three-bedroom house - her architect told her that it should not cost more that 2,500 - but five Tonbridge, Kent, Builders submitted tenders with in a few paubds of 4,000....Yesterday Daphne told tele-viewers out the "Price Ring" operated among builders to inflate prices. She was appearing in the first programme "About the Home" which the B.B.C. consulted the Royal Institute of British Architects who said that local builders agree on an inflated price...But today a contract is being signed by a company which operates over a wide free for the building of the house Under 2,500. Photo Shows Daphne Padel surveys the site of her new home to be.

Photo measures 8.25 x 10 inches.

Photo is dated 07-07-1953.



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