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Thanks for the history of buildings. My uncles from Ireland eventually bought brownstone houses = a sign of improved incomes and status for the Irish The, Quonset huts were common in Derry City when it became an Atlantic naval base for the US in the Battle of the Atlantic in WW2. When the war was over, there was a housing shortage in the City and families occupied the huts in Springtown. A few still survive as work sites. Gradually, conditions worsened and they became slums and an example of the worst housing conditions. Later Creggan estate was built with fine houses. This later became the Bogside which was the nucleus of the Troubles. It was almost entire Catholic. I knw many of the naval people in the 1960s in St Columb's College, Derry. They arrived in school each morning with the grey US naval vans with drivers in uniform. Many US navy men married Derry girls, one of whom is a friend now living in Florida.