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  • A tribute to John De'Ath

    A tribute to John De'Ath

    10/07/2017
    We were sad to learn, from his granddaughter Lorraine, that John De’Ath was in hospital when we took a group ...
  • A prefab “entente cordiale”!

    A prefab “entente cordiale”!

    25/04/2017
    I was recently scouting for prefabs in Brittany with my friend Mickaël, the director of Mémoire de Soye – a ...
  • Mystery prefabs - can you help us locate them from this list?

    Mystery prefabs - can you help us locate them from this list?

    23/03/2017
    Can you help solve these prefab mysteries? The map has been re-launched, and there are still some mystery prefabs left! In ...
  • One Arcon story

    One Arcon story

    08/03/2017
    This is the story of an Arcon MkV prefab. We don’t know where it was originally located or who lived ...
  • Prefabs in the Outer Hebrides

    Prefabs in the Outer Hebrides

    21/02/2017
    The first time I went to The Outer Hebrides was in May 2009. I remember perfectly. I was there for ...
  • A tribute to Ted Carter, our friend and Excalibur prefab resident

    A tribute to Ted Carter, our friend and Excalibur prefab resident

    15/02/2017
    Jane and I are very sad to hear that Excalibur Resident Ted Carter died at the end of last week. ...
  • Mapping post-war prefabs part 2 - industrial London

    Mapping post-war prefabs part 2 - industrial London

    01/02/2017
    This blog post is something of a ramble, to start the new year. There is a lot of talk about gentrification, ...
  • Prefabs in North Derbyshire

    Prefabs in North Derbyshire

    13/01/2017
    In 2005, I was contacted by a prefab enthusiast, Graham Burton, who lived in a prefab in North Wingfield, North ...
  • Swedish Post-War Prefabricated Houses

    Swedish Post-War Prefabricated Houses

    10/01/2017
    The houses were imported from Sweden at the end of WW2 to designs from the UK. Many are still standing and lived in. There are several different styles but typically, unless they have been re-clad, they have distinctive vertical wooden exterior planking. One pair of dormer bungalows in Ellers Lane, Auckley, Doncaster is listed Grade II by Historic England.
  • Politics and prefabs

    Politics and prefabs

    19/12/2016
    “People have got the idea that it (prefabrication) means jerry building, tumbledown shacks, caravans, shoddy work, ribbon development, draughts and ...
  • Prefabs in France

    Prefabs in France

    15/12/2016
    “Are there any post-war prefabs in France?” I am often asked this question. So here I am, trying in ...
  • Festive update from the Prefab Museum!

    Festive update from the Prefab Museum!

    13/12/2016
    Dear Prefab Lovers, 2016 is coming to its end and has been a fantastic prefab year: after years of prefabs commitment, ...
  • How my passion for prefabs made me a calendar girl

    How my passion for prefabs made me a calendar girl

    28/11/2016
    I have always wanted to be a pin-up on a calendar. After all, that’s how Marilyn Monroe started her career… ...
  • Mapping Britain's post-war prefabs

    Mapping Britain's post-war prefabs

    24/11/2016
    I started plotting the online prefab locations map nearly five years ago, a couple of months after we closed the ...
  • The history of Uni-Seco Structures - guest blog post

    The history of Uni-Seco Structures - guest blog post

    17/11/2016
    Our thanks to Paul Francis from the Airfield Research Group who contributed this report. Text and photographs copyright Paul Francis/ARG. Early ...
  • AW Hawksley Ltd and the factory at Brockworth - guest blog

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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 ...
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  • 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...
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