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  • 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 ...
  • Moving Prefab - Memories, memorabilia and Archive

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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 exist without the encouragement and support of prefab enthusiasts willing to give up their time ...
  • 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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Latest comments
  • Jane Hearn on Prefab fondly remembered. Buckland Estate, Dover

    22/05/2023
    Thank you for your comment. I don't have access to the old maps anymore but there is some information on...
  • Ann Charlwood on Memories of Bracken Avenue, Shirley

    19/05/2023
    My name was Ann Hearne before marriage. I lived with my Mum Dad and younger brother at 18 Bramble Close....
  • Graham Webb on Prefab fondly remembered. Buckland Estate, Dover

    19/05/2023
    I was born in 1952 in a prefab at 10 Ruskin Terrace (I think on the Buckland Estate) which I...
  • Morrie on Denise Thompson’s memories of her family prefab in Weston Road, Lichfield

    11/05/2023
    Update it was Fradley aero drome
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