Pre-fab

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This example of a Post-WWII Pre-fab is in the Chiltern Open Air Museum and was originally in Amersham.

Pre-fabs often had gardens The lounge
More of the lounge The style of wedding photo is similar to John's parents
A bedroom the Kitchen
An estimated 160,000 prefabricated temporary bungalows were made between 1945 and 1948, to help ease the acute housing shortage after the Second World War. With traditional materials scarce, and traditional building methods relatively slow, mass-produced factory-made houses using alternative resources provided one solution to the urgent need for houses. This model, which was one of 46 at Finch Lane, Amersham, was intended to provide only temporary housing. In fact it was occupied for forty years until the site was redeveloped for permanent housing in 1987. It is a 'Universal House, Mark 3' manufactured in nearby Rickmansworth. The furnishings inside the prefab are not the original pieces but are contemporary with the period
An information board about rationing. John had his own ration book.  

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