Anything I come across to do with prefabs, where I spent my childhood.
I was brought up in St Denys, an area of Southampton. After the Second World War prefabs were constructed that would become my home for over a decade. Sometime after 1976 the prefabs were demolished, as was the adjacent paint factory, and modern houses were built. The following 4 maps show how the area has changed.
All maps are screen-shots taken from http://www.old-maps.co.uk
Continue reading “The changing map of St Denys”
Click on the image to link to the Prefab Museum website.
The Government has promised to build one million new homes by 2020 – and now it emerges a chunk of them will be pre-packed.
http://news.sky.com/story/new-wave-of-prefabs-to-tackle-housing-crisis-10638268
Originally posted in:
https://mythingschange.wordpress.com/2016/03/27/prefabhomes/
The image below was taken in 1932 and shows St Denys, Southampton where our prefabs were built soon after the war. It’s the riverside area in the bottom-left-hand corner, just below the railway line/bridge. Also visible are possibly the boats which 20 years later became ‘the wrecks in the mud’ that we explored whilst wearing our wellies!
A rebuilt prefab belonging to the Isle of Wight Model Engineering Society! See http://www.iwmes.org.uk/prefab.html for more information about their prefab.
