A firm of solicitors do battle with the head of the local council over a parcel of river front land, owned by the Huggett family, in order to build a lido/community center.
Property contracts were seemingly as central to the political process seventy years ago as they are today according to this mildly Capraesque entry in the Huggetts series in which a piece of land worth £300 (which eventually reaches the astronomic sum of £750!) is the prime mover behind local government political machinations in the fictional municipal borough of Strutham.
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