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  • Willoughby Place, Callander, Stirling

    Willoughby Place, Callander, Stirling

    10/11/2025
    Roy sent these lovely colour photos of the AIROH prefabs in Willoughby Place, Callander. They were demolished around 1965 and ...
  • Coronation party, Hind Grove, Poplar, London E14

    Coronation party, Hind Grove, Poplar, London E14

    07/11/2025
    Whilst archiving some family pictures I came across these two which sent me off on a hunt for other pictures ...
  • Coronation party, Hind Grove, Poplar E14

    Coronation party, Hind Grove, Poplar E14

    07/11/2025
  • Memories of Park Lane East, Pickering Road, Hull, East Yorkshire

    Memories of Park Lane East, Pickering Road, Hull, East Yorkshire

    05/11/2025
    If one were to look down from a hot air balloon onto Park Lane East one would see 3 identical ...
  • A photo that captures joy – Gunner Hector Murdoch returns home

    A photo that captures joy – Gunner Hector Murdoch returns home

    05/11/2025
    This photo is an image that is very well known. I think it’s a wonderful photo. It was taken by ...
  • 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 ...
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  • Denise Rollison (nee Spiers) on Collection of June Leigh, 48 Fairview Avenue, Wigmore, Gillingham

    06/11/2025
    I was born in a prefab in December 1946 at 31 Lorton Road Gravesend. Kent. My parents said it was...
  • Jane Hearn on Conservation and restoration of 407 Wake Green Road, August 2024

    05/11/2025
    Kingspan thermal
  • Jane Hearn on Mapping Britain’s post-war prefabs

    05/11/2025
    Hi, I don't have any photos just a map link https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=18.0&lat=51.54702&lon=0.08175&layers=173&b=1&o=100 and an aerial photo from Britain From Above (you...
  • Rebecca on Conservation and restoration of 407 Wake Green Road, August 2024

    27/10/2025
    Hi, do you know what the spec of the insulation was put in these during restoration and was it done...
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