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  • Tarran prefabs in St Hilda's Gardens, Whitby

    Tarran prefabs in St Hilda's Gardens, Whitby

    10/08/2020
    Peter sent these images of a group of Tarrans in Whitby, North Yorkshire. Five remain of the original eight prefabs, ...
  • Front garden of 845 Yardley Wood Road, the Valley Prefabs

    Front garden of 845 Yardley Wood Road, the Valley Prefabs

    04/08/2020
  • Unidentified prefab? Salisbury, Wiltshire

    Unidentified prefab? Salisbury, Wiltshire

    29/07/2020
    Prefab, Salisbury, Wiltshire, 1953
  • Cornish three-storey blocks of flats in River View, Putson, Hereford

    Cornish three-storey blocks of flats in River View, Putson, Hereford

    27/07/2020
    There are six Cornish three-storey blocks of flats at River View, Putson, on the edge of the River Wye. There ...
  • Cornish three-storey blocks of flats in Oak Crescent, Hereford

    Cornish three-storey blocks of flats in Oak Crescent, Hereford

    27/07/2020
    Hereford still has at least 16 Cornish three-storey blocks of flats. Four of them are in Oak Crescent, adjacent to ...
  • Airey Houses in Clee View and Whitbread Road, Ludlow

    Airey Houses in Clee View and Whitbread Road, Ludlow

    26/07/2020
    There are 22 pairs of semi-detached two-storey Airey houses in Clee View (16) and the adjacent Whitbread Road in Ludlow ...
  • Hawksley BL8 Prefabs in Clee View, Ludlow

    Hawksley BL8 Prefabs in Clee View, Ludlow

    26/07/2020
    There were at least 10 pairs of semi-detached BL8 prefabs in Clee View, Ludlow. Two have lost one of their ...
  • Memories of 31 St Peter's Road, Chadwell St Mary

    Memories of 31 St Peter's Road, Chadwell St Mary

    17/07/2020
    Susie contacted the Prefab Museum. My mum Joan Tucker (nee Edwards) is writing a book and has mentioned prefabs, as her ...
  • Memories of Stephen Jones.

    Memories of Stephen Jones.

    13/07/2020
    I remember living in a ‘prefab’ as a young child in the village of Peasedown St. John, Somerset at Hillcrest. ...
  • Prefab garden 1950s, Munster Square, Camden NW1

    Prefab garden 1950s, Munster Square, Camden NW1

    03/07/2020
    The first photograph depicts Jonathan’s grandparents, the Cliffords, who lived in a prefab at 11 Munster Square until 1956 when ...
  • Airey houses in Leicestershire

    Airey houses in Leicestershire

    30/06/2020
    Emma photographed these unaltered Airey Houses in Ashby Folville, Leicestershire. Many thanks to Emma.
  • We lived in a Prefab

    We lived in a Prefab

    28/06/2020
    We lived in a Prefab Paul Lewis Kennedy © 2018 We lived in a Prefab in Pilgrims Way for years when I ...
  • Tarran Prefabs in Chestnut Drive and Pine Grove, Hereford

    Tarran Prefabs in Chestnut Drive and Pine Grove, Hereford

    28/06/2020
    There are 12 Tarran prefabs remaining in Chestnut Drive and Pine Grove, Hereford. Three are unoccupied and, judging from the ...
  • Hawksley BL8 Prefabs in Lower Bullingham, Hereford

    Hawksley BL8 Prefabs in Lower Bullingham, Hereford

    28/06/2020
    As of June 2020, all but one of the 73 Hawksley BL8 prefabs in Lower Bullingham, Hereford, have been re-roofed ...
  • 3 bedroom Arcon MkV, Eccles on Sea

    3 bedroom Arcon MkV, Eccles on Sea

    27/06/2020
    Dave contacted the Prefab Museum in November 2019 to ask about an Arcon MkV prefab he intended to purchase. Dave ...
  • Arcon MkV in Algiers, North Africa

    Arcon MkV in Algiers, North Africa

    24/06/2020
    This photo is of my late father Leslie Hocken taken outside a sample Arcon MkV prefab sent to Algiers for ...
  • Hainault, Winter 1947

    Hainault, Winter 1947

    24/06/2020
    This photo was taken in the front garden of 370 New North Road, Hainault in the winter of 1947. My ...
  • The happiest days in Manford Green, Chigwell

    The happiest days in Manford Green, Chigwell

    14/06/2020
    The very smart little boy is me and the hooligan running down the path is my pal who I have ...
  • First to Live in a Prefab

    First to Live in a Prefab

    07/06/2020
    My mother and father lived at 250a Richmond Road, Hackney, London E.9 from 1944/45. I believe they must have been ...
  • Memories of Mount Florida, Glasgow

    Memories of Mount Florida, Glasgow

    30/05/2020
    For football lovers in Scotland, Mount Florida is synonymous with the home of Scottish football, Hampden Park. Little did I ...
  • Howard Steel Houses in Stafford

    Howard Steel Houses in Stafford

    30/05/2020
    Bob contacted the Prefab Museum about his prefab house in Merrivale Road, Stafford.  He sent some old photos which he ...
  • Happy times at Crowhill Street, Parkhouse, Glasgow

    Happy times at Crowhill Street, Parkhouse, Glasgow

    25/05/2020
  • Memories of 321 White Hart Lane, Tottenham, London N17.

    Memories of 321 White Hart Lane, Tottenham, London N17.

    23/05/2020
    I lived there shortly after my birth in Nov 1945 and believe the prefabs in White Hart Lane were demolished ...
  • Memories from a childhood in Cheadle Hulme

    Memories from a childhood in Cheadle Hulme

    23/05/2020
    I was really pleased to discover the Prefab Museum. The photographs and articles have stirred up childhood memories of life ...
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  • Russell Howell on With her pram outside the prefab, No.5 Holmbrook street, off of Brooksbys Walk, London E9

    08/01/2021
    My Father's uncle lived in Holmbrook Street and, from my Father's memory, had the last standing house before the prefabs....
  • Raymond Thornton was vilosky on Prefabs on Heaton Park, Manchester

    02/01/2021
    Yes Lynda I also grew up in the prefabs and went to the park school I have lots of happy...
  • John Stocking on Written memories from Eileen Prosser about living in a prefab in Lower Jackwood Close, Eltham, SE9

    30/12/2020
    My family moved from Lambeth to 59 Lower Jackwood Close SE9 in 1947 when I was 3 months old. My...
  • jo petken on Denise and her mum and dad outside the prefab, Loughton, Essex

    09/12/2020
    I lived in a prefab there in the army fifties we used to play in the fields behind them and...
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