In and around Caledon there were as usual many Catholics waiting patiently and uselessly for a council house. The housing list contained a total of 269 names; many of them had been on the list for ten years and more. Some of the families had as many as fourteen children. All of them were outraged when the eighteen-year-old Protestant secretary of a nearby Unionist politician was awarded a house when she became engaged – to a local B-Special.
