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  • Design

    Design

    Prefabs were spacious and well designed with modern conveniences; a fitted kitchen with refrigerator, cooker and water boiler, fitted cupboards ...
  • History

    History

    The Prefab Museum is a living history online museum about Britain’s post-war prefabs. Part of the Temporary Housing and Emergency ...
  • Julie sitting by the fire in the prefab. Cotton Avenue, Acton, London

    Julie sitting by the fire in the prefab. Cotton Avenue, Acton, London

  • Moving Prefab event: Chiltern Open Air Museum 23 August 2016

    Moving Prefab event: Chiltern Open Air Museum 23 August 2016

  • Moving Prefab event: Chiltern Open Air Museum 23 August 2016

    Moving Prefab event: Chiltern Open Air Museum 23 August 2016

  • Moving Prefab event: Chiltern Open Air Museum 23 August 2016

    Moving Prefab event: Chiltern Open Air Museum 23 August 2016

  • Peter Gale's family in front of their prefab, the second they were allocated in Portsmouth

    Peter Gale's family in front of their prefab, the second they were allocated in Portsmouth

  • Peter Gale's mum in front of their UK100 prefab in Furze Lane, Portsmouth

    Peter Gale's mum in front of their UK100 prefab in Furze Lane, Portsmouth

  • Rear view, Universal prefab

    Rear view, Universal prefab

  • Reconstruction of the Universal prefab at Chiltern Open Air Museum

    Reconstruction of the Universal prefab at Chiltern Open Air Museum

  • Site visit: Chiltern Open Air Museum, 6 May 2016

    Site visit: Chiltern Open Air Museum, 6 May 2016

  • Site visit: Chiltern Open Air Museum, 6 May 2016

    Site visit: Chiltern Open Air Museum, 6 May 2016

  • Site visit: Chiltern Open Air Museum, 6 May 2016

    Site visit: Chiltern Open Air Museum, 6 May 2016

  • Site visit: Chiltern Open Air Museum, 6 May 2016

    Site visit: Chiltern Open Air Museum, 6 May 2016

  • Site visit: Chiltern Open Air Museum, 6 May 2016

    Site visit: Chiltern Open Air Museum, 6 May 2016

  • Site visit: Chiltern Open Air Museum, 6 May 2016

    Site visit: Chiltern Open Air Museum, 6 May 2016

  • Site visit: Chiltern Open Air Museum, 6 May 2016

    Site visit: Chiltern Open Air Museum, 6 May 2016

  • Welcome to the Prefab Museum

    Welcome to the Prefab Museum

    Prefabs were put up as a temporary solution to ease the housing crisis after the Second World War. The Temporary Housing Programme was unprecedented as the first, and probably the last, time that central government took control of the design, manufacture and supply of homes.
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