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Celebrating Britain’s post-war prefabs and their residents
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Prefabs were spacious and well designed with modern conveniences; a fitted kitchen with refrigerator, cooker and water boiler, fitted cupboards ...
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
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 mum in front of their UK100 prefab in Furze Lane, Portsmouth
Rear view, Universal prefab
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
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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