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  • Nicky Lock on Chipstead Lane, Lower Kingswood, Surrey

    18/03/2023
    Love seeing this picture! I was at school at the old Tamworth Primary school nearby in 1961 and clearly remember...

  • Sonja Eveleigh (nee Buller) on Mottingham Prefabs

    13/03/2023
    My name was Sonja Buller. We lived at 110, Houseland Road overlooking the sports field, this from 1947 until the...

  • Josephine Henderson on Manford Green, Chigwell

    03/03/2023
    Manford Way up to Chigwell Rec was classed as Chigwell, New north Road over towards Fairlop was Hainault, it all...

  • Peter Claxton on Tarran detached house brochure, front cover

    02/03/2023
    This house was situated on Oak Road, Hull. Relatively close to the Tarran factory on Clough Road. The stream in...

  • John Balaam on Manford Green, Chigwell

    02/03/2023
    I was born in a prefab at 14 Tine Road (off Manford Way) in 1947 and lived there until 1953....

  • Jane Hearn on Me playing with fire early 1950s. 15 Bonchurch Road, Southampton

    22/02/2023
    Thank you for your comment. Please note that photos donated to the archive are given titles by their owner. On...

  • mike omeara on Me playing with fire early 1950s. 15 Bonchurch Road, Southampton

    21/02/2023
    I lived at no 1 I think it was called BONCHURCH way not rd .The prefab was new when we...

  • Jane Douthgate on Braintree & Bocking Prefabs (and Hutton) – guest blog post by Braintree historian Mike Bardell

    15/02/2023
    I lived in Arnhem Grove one up from the 3 bungalows, It was new, 1949, we stayed about 3 years...

  • Morrie on Denise Thompson’s memories of her family prefab in Weston Road, Lichfield

    12/02/2023
    32weston Road the dimples. As we knew it in 1946 We used to travel through the woods behind Weston Road...

  • Stephen Hatchett on British step towards brave new world. Yarmouth, England

    07/02/2023
    I lived in a prefab in gorleston on sea Shrublands Estate Great Yarmouth Norfolk, I was about five year's old...

  • Lesley Abraham on Arcon MkV, Isle of Wight, spotted by Charles Horsey

    03/02/2023
    I worked for the local council in the housing department in the 1980s/1990, and these prefabs were still being used...

  • Alyn Nicholls on Transcription of Denise Thompson’s interview

    30/01/2023
    I remember the prefabs on Weston Road. We moved in to the Air Ministry Houses first on Curborough Road and...

  • Eileen Prosser (Jolin) on Happy memories of Lower Jackwood Close

    27/01/2023
    Hello John I remember you very well, in your top photo I am standing on the left of the picture...

  • Jane Hearn on The history of Uni-Seco Structures – guest blog post

    27/01/2023
    You are quite right! https://www.wernick.co.uk/about/history/ Blog post amended. best wishes, Jane

  • David Findlay on The history of Uni-Seco Structures – guest blog post

    27/01/2023
    Might the Secometric factory been in Wickford Essex Russel gardens .Not Wickham Essex

  • Thelma Byrne on “Weir Houses” were built at Sankeys. Taking over 100 hours to erect they were sent to badly bombed areas to replace destroyed housing. Named after Lord Weir whose Scottish company was also involved in the manufacture of prefabricated housing. Some were built locally and occupied by workers from Sankeys (called Weir Gardens)(now demolished).

    22/01/2023
    My family and I lived in these house from 1971 until 1979. My father worked in the accounts Dept of...

  • Joe Baker on Where I lived when I was a kid, a poem about prefab childhood by Paul Kennedy

    17/01/2023
    The poem brings back many fond memories for me. I was born in 1950 and spent until 1965 in a...

  • Jane Hearn on David and Spot. Beecher Place, Halesowen

    15/01/2023
    Corrected, thank you

  • Jane Hearn on Swedish houses in Wroxham and Hoveton, Norfolk

    15/01/2023
    Please see email response

  • Colin john slaney on Swedish houses in Wroxham and Hoveton, Norfolk

    14/01/2023
    Hi can anyone tell me what the difference between a prefab and a mobile I was thinking it’s because of...

  • Michael Thompson on David and Spot. Beecher Place, Halesowen

    13/01/2023
    The address should be Beecher Place, not Beecher Drive

  • Council Housing in Holborn, Part II: ‘Diminishing the Tenement Atmosphere’ | Municipal Dreams on Mapping Britain’s post-war prefabs

    12/01/2023
    […] (3) They are recorded on the Prefab Museum map. […]

  • Rachel McFadyen on Memories of Mount Florida, Glasgow

    26/12/2022
    My Gran and Grandpa (Jenny and Jimmy Scott) lived at 32 hangingshaw place with their three daughters Irene, Marlene and...

  • Jacqui Frances on 3 bedroom Arcon MkV, Eccles on Sea

    16/12/2022
    Looks like an amazing transformation! Are all these prefabs steel framed? Are they all Arcons? I am interested in one...
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  • East Walk, Aveley, Essex

    24/01/2023
    Rita was born in 1947 and lived in a prefab at East Walk, Aveley. She believes they were demolished in ...

  • Rita and Brian Daviss. East Walk, Aveley

    23/01/2023
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