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There some around into the 90s when I was commuting into London. Gone now, of course.
They were a fantastic solution to the post war housing shortage and if memory served me right were meant to have a lifespan of ten years. There is actually a prefab at the Duxford museum if you wish to see one.
I'm pretty certain they are all still in use as housing.
Definitely are. Still a few around the Cheltenham Town's ground, supposedly up for compulsory purchase, but the folks living in them were digging their heels in last I heard.
They are still there as far as I know, some of the other pre-fab housing in Rushmere got demolished about 20 years ago (Renfrew Road etc) but not the bungalows.
The bungalows on Sidegate Lane/Humber Doucy Lane/Inverness Road are still there. They've actually been a vital housing stock for those with access needs and have been given a lot of TLC by the council in recent years.
As for the flat roof Orlit houses, they were on both Rushmere and Whitehouse estates. My nan and grandad lived in one on Kildare Avenue but had to move to one of the new builds in Waterford that replaced them. Must be late 1990, early 1991 going by my memories of visiting/staying with them. Whitehouse had the houses with the tin cladding too that was replaced around the same time. Those feckers were cold inside.
That's within drunken staggering distance of the Ramsholt Arms, you lucky blighter. I got the California Club on Foxhall Road. Talk about a postcode lottery!
That's within drunken staggering distance of the Ramsholt Arms, you lucky blighter. I got the California Club on Foxhall Road. Talk about a postcode lottery!
By coincidence, the california club was in stumbling distance of me when I first moved into Ipswich, on Faraday Road.
I was born underwater, I dried out in the sun.
I started humping volcanoes baby, when I was too young.
The bungalows on Sidegate Lane/Humber Doucy Lane/Inverness Road are still there. They've actually been a vital housing stock for those with access needs and have been given a lot of TLC by the council in recent years.
As for the flat roof Orlit houses, they were on both Rushmere and Whitehouse estates. My nan and grandad lived in one on Kildare Avenue but had to move to one of the new builds in Waterford that replaced them. Must be late 1990, early 1991 going by my memories of visiting/staying with them. Whitehouse had the houses with the tin cladding too that was replaced around the same time. Those feckers were cold inside.
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