Further interviews with residents of Springtown Camp in Derry. Charles Witherspoon talks to people living in Springtown Camp. Some were told they would be in the camp for two weeks and are still here 12 years later. “We don’t exist” says one man.
Their campaign for decent housing had begun in 1946, when the Springtown US military camp was abandoned by the troops and impoverished families moved in. The camp was unfit for habitation and became increasingly crowded over time but the Londonderry Corporation refused to build new homes for the occupants.