A selection of images from the exhibition being held at The Gallery at the National Monuments Record Centre. The exhibition runs from 10 April to 4 July 1999.
Admission is free.
A lecture on prefabs by Elain Harwood, post-war architectural historian from English Heritage will take place at the NMRC on Wednesday 19 May 1999. The idea of prefabricated houses goes back to the Industrial Revolution and, ultimately, to the tent. But 'factory homes' in large numbers were a response to thehousing shortages after two world wars. There can be no mistaking Britain's most popular prefabs. The bungalows many of us recognise as these temporary buildings were only supposed to last fifteen years, but they proved so popular, and many still exist and are in use today.