Remember these.? All our yesterdays

[myglaren]

There were a few of them in Whitby, next to the cemetery. My wife's uncle and aunt lived in the first one there.
All gone now it seems.

[NewcastleFalcon]

A mini and some prefabs Otford Kent

Tom and Ethel Lowe Tudor Crescent

Regards Neil

[NewcastleFalcon]

This from the Chiltern Open-Air Museum where one has been reconstructed, and tells the story pretty well.



Regards Neil

[Peter.N.]

That one looks similar to the '50s miners cottage at Beamish Neil. I remember the ones in Otford well, I believe we had some customers there, in fact they were there for some years, possibly the last ones in our area, I don't suppose they are still there haven't been that way for years. Just to the north of Sevenoaks.

I love the Mini with the Kent reg, nearly all the Kent ones were 'K' with the exception of Liverpool which were KA-KD and there were a few other exceptions. Just behind the people there is what looks like an Austin A40 van with windows - I passed my driving test in one of those.

Thanks for all the other info - makes me feel young again.

Peter

[NewcastleFalcon]

Thanks for all the other info - makes me feel young again.
Peter

My pleasure Peter, I enjoy the chase, and finding out about a variety of subjects which is satisfying in itself, but thanks for your comment, I am pleased you picked some enjoyment out of my delving into Prefabs

Regards Neil

[mickthemaverick]

I am pleased you picked some enjoyment out of my delving into Prefabs

Regards Neil

I hope you had your asbestos kit on Neil!

[NewcastleFalcon]

I am pleased you picked some enjoyment out of my delving into Prefabs

Regards Neil

I hope you had your asbestos kit on Neil!

The people who demolished them in the 1970's certainly didn't

Regards Neil

[Peter.N.]

Does anyone remember the air raid shelters, Anderson and Morrison?

Peter

[NewcastleFalcon]

The prefab at the Chiltern Open-Air Museum has one or at least a shed made of one.

Chiltern Open Museum

REgards Neil

[Peter.N.]

Pleased to know it still being useful but I don't think it would give much protection against a DoodleBug.

Peter

[myglaren]

Used to be loads of Andersen shelters used as farm buildings and sheds. Haven't seen one for donkeys.

[Peter.N.]

We had one in our garden in Petts Wood - but it kept filling up with water. My grandparents had a double length one in Bromley on their smallholding it was about half underground and covered with a couple of feet of soil. My grandmother used it for storing apples after the war and I can still remember that smell, lovely. We had a huge underground one at my school, didn't have much use of it as the war ended just after I started there.

Peter

[mickthemaverick]

I am pleased you picked some enjoyment out of my delving into Prefabs

Regards Neil

I hope you had your asbestos kit on Neil!

The people who demolished them in the 1970's certainly didn't

Regards Neil

Interestingly on BT we were asbestos trained, those of us that volunteered, in 1972 so it is possible that the demolition crew were protected as the dangers were known by then!!

[Gibbo2286]

We had one in our garden in Petts Wood - but it kept filling up with water. My grandparents had a double length one in Bromley on their smallholding it was about half underground and covered with a couple of feet of soil. My grandmother used it for storing apples after the war and I can still remember that smell, lovely. We had a huge underground one at my school, didn't have much use of it as the war ended just after I started there.

Peter

I watched my dad and the neighbours putting ours up, it was put in a hole they dug about three feet deep at the top of our back garden they all helped with each others.
We slept in there for many nights during the blitz. they were never going to protect against a direct hit or even a near miss, we lost a family at the top of our road, their block of four houses were hit and completely flattened and they all died despite being in the shelter away from the house.
After the war ended dad dug ours out and made a shed out of the parts.

[Peter.N.]

We never really used ours although we did get our back windows blown in presumably by a bomb dropped behind us somewhere, I was too young to remember. We had a couple of houses bombed within about 300-400 yards of us and the woman that lived next door but two was killed when the 'Crooked Billet' pub near us but over the border in Bromley was bombed one night. I was woken up with two children being put in the other end of my bed. I didn't realize what it was all about at the time.

Does anyone remember Morrison shelters, they were installed indoors.

Peter