Stock Photo - Mar. 15, 1972 - Women fight for £45,000 Compensation for their house.: Two woman said yesterday that unless they were paid £45,000 compensation they would barricade themselves in their house at Hinksey Hill, near Reading, and halt the building of the £4million Abingdon by-pass. The threat was made by Miss Iris Mason and Miss Kathleen Flowers to the Department of the Environment. Their 10-roomed house, built in 1933 for about £1.500 stands in the path of the by-pass and the Environment Department has offered £11,000 for the property and half-acre of garden. The two women have lived in the house for almost 40 years. Photo shows defying the bulldozers - Miss Iris Mason (left) 54, and Miss Kathleen Flowers, who is over 80, walking yesterday round their bolesguered home which is in the path of the -.4 million Abingdon by-pass. (Credit Image: © Keystone Press Agency/Keystone USA via ZUMAPRESS.com)