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  • Memories of Roy Harries, Ystrad, Rhondda, South Wales

    Memories of Roy Harries, Ystrad, Rhondda, South Wales

    27/09/2024
    I lived in a prefab in Ystrad, Rhondda, South Wales for the first twenty years or so of my life. ...
  • Conservation and restoration of 407 Wake Green Road, August 2024

    Conservation and restoration of 407 Wake Green Road, August 2024

    02/09/2024
  • Restoration and conservation: The Grade II listed Wake Green Road prefabs

    Restoration and conservation: The Grade II listed Wake Green Road prefabs

    16/07/2024
    More photos of the conserved and restored Wake Green Road prefabs! I was in Solihull and met David at the ...
  • Restoration of the Wake Green Road prefabs, July 2024

    Restoration of the Wake Green Road prefabs, July 2024

    10/07/2024
    David wrote: I’ve noticed that a number of the restored prefabs in Wake Green Road are now occupied and took ...
  • Prototype prefab bungalow, Weathershields, 1945

    Prototype prefab bungalow, Weathershields, 1945

    28/05/2024
    Dame Stephanie Shirley contacted the Prefab Museum about a photo of a prototype prefab bungalow which she offered to donate. ...
  • Clarkson Estate, Norwich

    Clarkson Estate, Norwich

    03/05/2024
    Rod lived in a Phoenix prefab at 12 Gristock Rd and with his Gran, on the Clarkson Estate at number ...
  • Eden Park Avenue, Beckenham, London BR3

    Eden Park Avenue, Beckenham, London BR3

    03/05/2024
    I lived for a few years as a child opposite the prefabs in Eden Park Avenue (BR3 3JL) and Village ...
  • Zangwill Road, Blackheath, London SE3

    Zangwill Road, Blackheath, London SE3

    03/05/2024
    Brian contacted the Prefab Museum about the use of one of the archive photos to illustrate the type of prefab ...
  • Zangwill Road, Shooters Hill, London SE18

    Zangwill Road, Shooters Hill, London SE18

    30/04/2024
  • Memories of Patten Street, Blackburn

    Memories of Patten Street, Blackburn

    17/04/2024
    This is where My family, Dad, Mum, my mother’s father and myself (female) and brother, lived. It was situated almost ...
  • Wake Green Road prefabs update April 2024

    Wake Green Road prefabs update April 2024

    15/04/2024
    David has sent more photos of the progress on the conservation and restoration of the Phoenix prefabs at Wake Green ...
  • Uni-Seco Prefab Kitchen in Use

    Uni-Seco Prefab Kitchen in Use

    02/04/2024
  • Mum & Dad at the prefab. St Lawrence Way, Buckland Estate, Dover

    Mum & Dad at the prefab. St Lawrence Way, Buckland Estate, Dover

    16/02/2024
    Frank’s mum and dad in front of their prefab, which was erected in late 1947 (approximately). Many thanks to Frank ...
  • Progress on the Wake Green Road prefabs, February 2024

    Progress on the Wake Green Road prefabs, February 2024

    12/02/2024
    David has been in touch with updates on the Wake Green Road, Birmingham, prefabs which are undergoing restoration by Birmingham ...
  • Prefabs in Wick, Caithness

    Prefabs in Wick, Caithness

    12/02/2024
    On the Prefab Map you note prefabs in Leith Walk, Wick, Caithness – but there was also another group of ...
  • Transcription of Caroline Chokr's interview at the Rural Life Centre, Farnham, Surrey

    Transcription of Caroline Chokr's interview at the Rural Life Centre, Farnham, Surrey

    01/02/2024
  • Transcription of Judy Hewins recording at the Rural Life Centre, Farnham, Surrey

    Transcription of Judy Hewins recording at the Rural Life Centre, Farnham, Surrey

    01/02/2024
  • 37 Derwent Way, Rainham, Kent

    37 Derwent Way, Rainham, Kent

    02/01/2024
    Lawrence spent his childhood in a pre-fab, between 1948 and 1955. It was part of a small group called, rather ...
  • Prefab Garden, Seysell Street, London E14

    Prefab Garden, Seysell Street, London E14

    12/12/2023
    Geoffrey Hall, whose Nan, Mum and Uncle came from the Isle of Dogs, and his sister also lived on the ...
  • Prefab Garden, Seysell Street, London E14

    Prefab Garden, Seysell Street, London E14

    12/12/2023
  • Prefab Garden, Seysell Street, London E14

    Prefab Garden, Seysell Street, London E14

    11/12/2023
  • Memories of Nissen Huts in Eastfields (now Laburnham Road), Mitcham

    Memories of Nissen Huts in Eastfields (now Laburnham Road), Mitcham

    11/12/2023
    I was born in number 28 Laburnum Road in January, 1949. There are around 50 in the picture, so my ...
  • Willesden’s Post-War Prefab Homes

    Willesden’s Post-War Prefab Homes

    23/10/2023
    An illustrated talk delivered by Philip Grant,  a local historian, to Willesden Local History Society on 18 October 2023. Many thanks ...
  • Wake Green Road prefabs. Update August 2023

    Wake Green Road prefabs. Update August 2023

    22/08/2023
    David updated the Prefab Museum on the progress being made with the prefabs at Wake Green Road, Moseley, Birmingham, and ...
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  • Ted Collie on Lockley Crescent, Hatfield, Hertfordshire

    29/03/2025
    Other memories. Holliers Dairy used deliver the milk. A horse drawn cart !,sometimes the horse got “ Grumpy “ and...
  • Trevor Lloyd on Arcon prefab. 1 Woodman Road, Hainault Estate, Chigwell

    12/03/2025
    My family use to stay in these prefabs in Kennylands Road, Hainault up to 1966 when they were due to...
  • scott on Prefab on the corner of Willesden Lane and Christchurch Avenue, London NW6

    21/02/2025
    I was a choirboy at Christ Church, across the road, I knew this prefab well
  • John Horgan on Eisenhower Drive prefab estate.

    13/02/2025
    We lived at number 8 Montgomery gardens. Happy memories of football in the ringos. Do you remember Fred and Barbara...
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