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  • Gwendoline Parker on Pat and Kathy in front of the Nissen Hut, Bentham Road, London E9

    07/04/2021
    I lived in a Nissen hut in Bentham Road between 1950-52, when I was 2-4 years old. My mum and...

  • Pat Posner on Scale model of a Uni-Seco Mk3 central entrance prefab

    25/03/2021
    Absolutely fantastic.

  • Ian Abley on Scale model of a Uni-Seco Mk3 central entrance prefab

    25/03/2021
    Fantastic model. Love the heart unit in kitchen and bathroom.

  • Josephine Botting on Interview with Jane and Graham Parker, who lived in a prefab in Searle Street, Battersea SW11

    20/03/2021
    Just watching a film made in 1949 called Stop Press Girl and there is a shot of Searle Street used...

  • Raymond Tuite on Prefabs on Heaton Park, Manchester

    16/03/2021
    I lived in the Bury Old Road estate at this time and I was at Parkside. Miss Walton was the...

  • Jane Hearn on Airey Houses in Clee View and Whitbread Road, Ludlow

    11/03/2021
    Dear James, you would have to ask your local council about preservation orders as the Prefab Museum does not hold...

  • James Wilson on Airey Houses in Clee View and Whitbread Road, Ludlow

    11/03/2021
    Live in a swedish wooden prefab bungalow in cronton village Merseyside WA85BT pre war ? Have been told there might...

  • Jane Hearn on Mapping Britain’s post-war prefabs

    07/03/2021
    Thank you they are Airey Houses.best wishes, Jane

  • Sal on Mapping Britain’s post-war prefabs

    06/03/2021
    Hi I currently live in what I believe to be an airey house. I found my way here because I'm...

  • Keith Hunt on Swedish Post-War Prefabricated Houses

    26/02/2021
    There are lots in The Plies ( Road) Fairford, GL7

  • Jane Hearn on Prefabs on Heaton Park, Manchester

    26/02/2021
    Thank you for the information. best wishes, Jane

  • elaine.owen@timepix.uk on Prefabs on Heaton Park, Manchester

    26/02/2021
    There are at least a dozen photos of the Heaton Park prefabs at this link https://www.timepix.uk/PAGES/n-nKq3HD/Manchester-overspill-pages/Prefabs

  • Nicholas Watts on My childhood home in Coventry

    21/02/2021
    Thanks to this very informative site, I have now discovered that my childhood home (above) was an Arcon Mark V...

  • D Higgins on Swedish houses location list updated 19 March 2021

    15/02/2021
    There is a street with 6 x type A and 6 x type D Swedish houses in Brookland Kent TN29...

  • Liz Watson on Memories of Mount Florida, Glasgow

    15/02/2021
    Hi Bill, I lived in Hangingshaw Place and also got married in 1971. I think it would be hard to...

  • Joe Carr on Queen Elizabeth’s Coronation Street Party, Hind Grove, Poplar London E14 6th June 1953

    07/02/2021
    My sister Miriam Carr was Poplar's coronation queen Does anyone have a photo. There was one taken unfortunately My copy...

  • Mark Brennan on Eisenhower Drive prefab estate.

    02/02/2021
    Great memories of living there from 1965-69, which is a long time between 3 and 7 years old. David confirmed...

  • mike.omeara on 1952. 15 Bonchurch Road, Southampton

    02/02/2021
    I lived in number 1 Im fairly sure it was called Bonchurch way not Bonchurch road.Id love to exchange memories...

  • Gordon Oliver on Memories of 321 White Hart Lane, Tottenham, London N17.

    28/01/2021
    Stuart, My name is Gordon Oliver. We played rugby together at TGS. I was scrum half you were fly half....

  • Phyllis Hines nee lentz on Memories of 321 White Hart Lane, Tottenham, London N17.

    27/01/2021
    I remember you Stuart you went to Devonshire hill school I'm sure we were in the same class.

  • Russell Howell on With her pram outside the prefab, No.5 Holmbrook street, off of Brooksbys Walk, London E9

    08/01/2021
    My Father's uncle lived in Holmbrook Street and, from my Father's memory, had the last standing house before the prefabs....

  • Raymond Thornton was vilosky on Prefabs on Heaton Park, Manchester

    02/01/2021
    Yes Lynda I also grew up in the prefabs and went to the park school I have lots of happy...

  • John Stocking on Written memories from Eileen Prosser about living in a prefab in Lower Jackwood Close, Eltham, SE9

    30/12/2020
    My family moved from Lambeth to 59 Lower Jackwood Close SE9 in 1947 when I was 3 months old. My...

  • jo petken on Denise and her mum and dad outside the prefab, Loughton, Essex

    09/12/2020
    I lived in a prefab there in the army fifties we used to play in the fields behind them and...
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  • Mottingham Prefabs

    17/04/2021
    I lived in a prefab in Mottingham SE9 with my mother, father and 3 brothers. We lived 9 Nutton Road. ...

  • Scale model of a Uni-Seco Mk3 central entrance prefab

    24/03/2021
    Philip emailed the Prefab Museum last year about the prefab he lived in from 1947 to 1957 in Harold Place, ...

  • British Concrete Federation Huts in Bourn, Cambridgeshire

    12/03/2021
    Keith sent these photos of BCF Huts still standing in Bourn, Cambridgeshire. His mum lived in one

  • "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).

    10/03/2021
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