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Celebrating Britain’s post-war prefabs and their residents
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  • Design

    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

    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

    Prefab memories on film

    17/07/2016
    We have been able to capture, through the Heritage Lottery Fund project The Moving Prefab Museum and Archive, prefab memories ...
  • Moving Prefab Museum Archive - submissions and puzzles!

    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

    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

    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

    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

    Memories

    14/06/2016
    This page is about prefab memories, stories and photos.  Please read the blog posts on various topics, from the history ...
  • Map

    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

    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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  • Jane Hearn on 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...

  • D on 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?

  • Doreen Harrison on Welcome to the Prefab Museum

    01/05/2021
    I grew up in a prefab in Lymm, Cheshire. I was two months old when we moved in, it was...

  • Irene Glenis Harris / Taylor on Roy and Eva Taylor in the prefab garden, Marston Moretaine

    25/04/2021
    my mum and dad, I'm sitting on my mum's lap Glenis Taylor my sister Janice is with my dad and...
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