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AW Hawksley Ltd and the factory at Brockworth - guest blog
16/11/2016
We would like to thank Paul Francis from the Airfield Research Group for contributing this report. AW Hawksley Ltd and the ...
Moving Prefab exploration: Le Chateau (de Crittall), and prefabs in Silver End, Essex
06/10/2016
The history of Silver End is a fascinating one, beginning in the 1880s when Francis Henry Crittall, the son of an ironmonger in Braintree, began to manufacture metal windows.
Moving Prefab: A prefab weekend on Wake Green Road, Birmingham
04/10/2016
As part of Birmingham Heritage Week, we were lent an empty Phoenix-type prefab on Wake Green Road, where there are ...
A prefab conversation in Tufnell Park
20/09/2016
A lovely prefab conversation at the Lord Palmerston, Tufnell Park Three weeks ago, I met Catherine, Terence and Ben at the ...
Moving Prefab exploration - a prefab in south London
30/08/2016
A lovely morning with John De’Ath, prefab resident in Brockley, South London For the last year, Jane and I have been ...
Moving Prefab Museum - Chiltern Open Air Museum
27/08/2016
On the hottest day of the year, 23rd August 2016, we visited Chiltern Open Air Museum in Chalfont St Giles, ...
Moving Prefab Museum Exploration - Ipswich Tarrans
27/08/2016
While exploring locations of prefabs online earlier this year, we came across an article in the Ipswich Star from January ...
Moving Prefab Museum Event - East End Canal Festival
10/08/2016
On Sunday 26th June 2016 we set up our prefabs stall and banner at the East End Canal Festival in ...
Moving Prefab Museum Event - Rural Life Centre
08/08/2016
On the 3rd of July 2016, we were invited to hold a prefab event at the Rural Life Centre in ...
Moving Prefab - Memories, memorabilia and Archive
05/08/2016
Terence emailed us on 9 July about his prefab in London NW5. “I have just discovered your excellent site which brings ...
Moving Prefab Museum Event - St Mark's Church Hall, Excalibur Estate
05/08/2016
This was our first event of the Moving Prefab Museum and Archive project. It was very exciting as we had ...
Moving Prefab Museum - Avoncroft Museum of Historic Buildings
04/08/2016
Prefabulous Weekend! Avoncroft Museum of Historic Buildings, Bromsgrove in the West Midlands. There is a lovely open air museum there with ...
Moving Prefab Museum Exploration - Wake Green Road, Birmingham, listed prefabs
26/07/2016
On 3 June 2016 we travelled to Birmingham to meet Lou from 20th Century Society West Midlands and Simon and ...
Moving Prefab Museum - Prefab Scouts and prefab locations
26/07/2016
Adrian (aka Sid Cat) who regularly contributes to our Facebook page was passing through Stoneleigh in Warwickshire when he came ...
Design
17/07/2016
Prefabs were spacious and well designed with modern conveniences; a fitted kitchen with refrigerator, cooker and water boiler, fitted cupboards ...
Explore
17/07/2016
Every week people email us or tell us on Facebook and Twitter, and at our events, talks and walks, about ...
Prefab memories on film
17/07/2016
We have been able to capture, through our Heritage Lottery Fund project The Moving Prefab Museum and Archive, prefab memories ...
Moving Prefab Museum Archive - submissions and puzzles!
14/07/2016
This photo was emailed to us by John via a friend on 6 July 2016. He wanted to know what ...
The Prefab Museum story
15/06/2016
The Prefab Museum was inspired by photo-journalist Elisabeth Blanchet’s passion for and documentation of post-war prefabs and their residents in ...
Support
14/06/2016
The Prefab Museum would not still exist without the encouragement and support of prefab enthusiasts willing to give up their ...
The Moving Prefab Museum and Archive project
14/06/2016
We invented the “Moving Prefab” concept after we lost – to a criminal fire – the physical Prefab Museum we ...
Memories
14/06/2016
This page is about prefab memories, stories and photos. Please read our blog posts on various topics, from the history ...
Map
14/06/2016
Every week people tell us about prefabs we didn’t know existed. We have been directed to prefabs still lived in or long demolished, on farms, used as storage, catteries, as holiday homes or clubrooms, even two made into a pub, and links to community archives or Facebook groups.
History
14/06/2016
The Prefab Museum is a living history online museum about Britain’s post-war prefabs. Part of the Temporary Housing and Emergency ...
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Patricia Peek
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Coronation party at Lower Jackwood Close, Eltham
09/03/2019
My Sister and I were there, only we were in the garden of the end prefab because my sister had...
Jane Hearn
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Mapping Britain’s post-war prefabs
25/02/2019
Dear Tony Thank you very much for this new location, which is now on the map with a credit to...
Tony Land
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Mapping Britain’s post-war prefabs
25/02/2019
There were several prefabs on Eldon Avenue in Borehamwood, Hertfordshire. Going along Eldon Avenue from Shenley Road, on the left...
Jane Hearn
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The Prefab Museum story
18/02/2019
Dear Hilary, thank you for contacting the Prefab Museum about your mum's items. Unfortunately the Prefab Museum doesn't have premises...
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