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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
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
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
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
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
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!
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
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
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
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
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 ...
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Jane Hearn
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Swedish houses location list updated 19 March 2021
19/06/2021
Many thanks for this new location which I have passed to Neil who updates the list. My apologies for not...
Clare
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Swedish houses location list updated 19 March 2021
13/06/2021
I live in one in a set of 2 pairs in Thimbleby, Lincolnshire. The two on either end are housing...
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Welcome to the Prefab Museum
06/05/2021
Without knowing more about the type of prefab roof, I am unable to identify it. The only sure way is...
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Welcome to the Prefab Museum
04/05/2021
Hi We have a prefab roof in a garden, from 1950s. How can I tell if this is aspestos?
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