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Ray Smith with photos of his prefab in Penarth
Assembling Uni-Seco prefabs
Kitchen of an AIROH prefab, St Fagans National Museum
Prefab front garden, 413 Wake Green Road, Moseley
Dad's new Morris Oxford parked outside our prefab at no. 4 Tooke St. London, E14
Arcon prefab. 1 Woodman Road, Hainault Estate, Chigwell
The national archive of post-war prefabs and prefab life
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A prefab conversation in Tufnell Park
A lovely prefab conversation at the Lord Palmerston, Tufnell Park Three weeks ago, I met Catherine, Terence and Ben at the ...
A short history of prefabrication
Prefabrication is a method of producing standardised components off-site in a factory or workshop, that can be fitted together on-site. ...
A tribute to John De'Ath
We were sad to learn, from his granddaughter Lorraine, that John De’Ath was in hospital when we took a group ...
Allen and Judith Sawkins in front of the Arcon Mk V prefab at the Rural Life Centre, July 2016
An American prefab in Hertfordshire
Tom believes it to be the last lived-in UK100 in the UK. He sent some photos and a short history of the prefab.
Bernard on his bike in the prefab garden. 60 Harewood Road, Coventry
Braintree & Bocking Prefabs (and Hutton) - guest blog post by Braintree historian Mike Bardell
Mike Bardell contacted the Prefab Museum by email on 10th October 2017. He had met someone who had been to ...
Construction work finishing the prefabs, Silverbuthall
Ector Road, Excalibur Estate, London, SE6
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