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Weird hive mind question... For people 45+... Who grew up in the UK... 21:19 - Jul 23 with 2015 views

Please settle an argument.

What was the name for a temporary portacabin classroom in the 80s?

My wife and I are from very different geographical regions of the UK.

Please reply with the name for them at your school and the County you lived in!

Weird hive mind question... For people 45+... Who grew up in the UK... on 08:32 - Jul 24 with 509 views

BlueandTruesince82

Mobile classroom. Norfolk.

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Weird hive mind question... For people 45+... Who grew up in the UK... on 08:35 - Jul 24 with 506 views

DanTheMan

Not 80s, but in the 90s we also called them huts.

Only really remember calling them that when I was in Bucks.

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Weird hive mind question... For people 45+... Who grew up in the UK... on 08:42 - Jul 24 with 492 views

longtimefan

Weird hive mind question... For people 45+... Who grew up in the UK... on 08:35 - Jul 24 by DanTheMan
Not 80s, but in the 90s we also called them huts. Only really remember calling them that when I was in Bucks.

Huts at my Ipswich secondary school in the '70s

Weird hive mind question... For people 45+... Who grew up in the UK... on 08:58 - Jul 24 with 468 views

Cheltenham_Blue

Weird hive mind question... For people 45+... Who grew up in the UK... on 04:04 - Jul 24 by Benters
Hut. North Essex. One of them was jacked up on bricks and blocks and we’d crawl about underneath it. That was in the 1970s.

"One of them was jacked up on bricks and blocks and we’d crawl about underneath it." Same here.

They were also appallingly easy to break into.

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Weird hive mind question... For people 45+... Who grew up in the UK... on 10:14 - Jul 24 with 440 views

Benters

Weird hive mind question... For people 45+... Who grew up in the UK... on 08:58 - Jul 24 by Cheltenham_Blue
"One of them was jacked up on bricks and blocks and we’d crawl about underneath it." Same here. They were also appallingly easy to break into.

That’s the thing I hated school apart from the sports and girls and pink custard chocolate pudding the English teacher,the friends I made and still have a lost of contact with some on them.

But yes you could break into them easily,and on a rainy Sunday afternoon some of us did,didn’t cause any damage to anything though.

The same with beach huts.

Why are there two of these threads running anyway ?

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Weird hive mind question... For people 45+... Who grew up in the UK... on 10:22 - Jul 24 with 426 views

leitrimblue

Terrapins in Haverhill in the 80,s.

I have a strange feeling of deja vu..

Weird hive mind question... For people 45+... Who grew up in the UK... on 10:34 - Jul 24 with 406 views

soupytwist

Weird hive mind question... For people 45+... Who grew up in the UK... on 23:16 - Jul 23 by OsmansCleanSheet
Demountable. Essex.

Another vote for demountable from Essex. I went to school in Colchester, Birch, Pitsea, Benfleet and Southend and never heard them called anything else.

I've been a school governor in Essex too and also called them demountables when we had to get one at that school.

Weird hive mind question... For people 45+... Who grew up in the UK... on 10:56 - Jul 24 with 385 views

EdwardStone

Weird hive mind question... For people 45+... Who grew up in the UK... on 10:22 - Jul 24 by leitrimblue
Terrapins in Haverhill in the 80,s. I have a strange feeling of deja vu..

Terrapin

Sudbury early 70s

Weird hive mind question... For people 45+... Who grew up in the UK... on 13:56 - Jul 24 with 332 views

Coastalblue

Another Essex boy from 70's/80's and demountables again.

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Weird hive mind question... For people 45+... Who grew up in the UK... on 13:59 - Jul 24 with 331 views

giant_stow

Portacabins (London)

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Weird hive mind question... For people 45+... Who grew up in the UK... on 14:11 - Jul 24 with 313 views

Giant_Midget

Weird hive mind question... For people 45+... Who grew up in the UK... on 10:34 - Jul 24 by soupytwist
Another vote for demountable from Essex. I went to school in Colchester, Birch, Pitsea, Benfleet and Southend and never heard them called anything else. I've been a school governor in Essex too and also called them demountables when we had to get one at that school.

I went to school on the Essex coast and they were called demountables at my primary school.

Weird hive mind question... For people 45+... Who grew up in the UK... on 14:30 - Jul 24 with 300 views

LuciBlue

Portacabin, 54, Suffolk. No banana for scale.

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Weird hive mind question... For people 45+... Who grew up in the UK... on 15:04 - Jul 24 with 279 views

Europa

mobiles, Capel St Mary CoE PS, Suffolk, 1970s

Weird hive mind question... For people 45+... Who grew up in the UK... on 15:06 - Jul 24 with 274 views

blueprint

Demountable (Essex)

Weird hive mind question... For people 45+... Who grew up in the UK... on 00:30 - Jul 25 with 214 views

ArnoldMoorhen

Weird hive mind question... For people 45+... Who grew up in the UK... on 10:14 - Jul 24 by Benters

Phil told me the hobnob fund was running low so could I find a way to maximise clicks with nostalgia threads.

Either that, or it double posted from my phone, as I already apologised for on page one.

Weird hive mind question... For people 45+... Who grew up in the UK... on 04:04 - Jul 25 with 176 views

Benters

Weird hive mind question... For people 45+... Who grew up in the UK... on 00:30 - Jul 25 by ArnoldMoorhen
Phil told me the hobnob fund was running low so could I find a way to maximise clicks with nostalgia threads. Either that, or it double posted from my phone, as I already apologised for on page one.

So you did I just thought I was going nuts seeing another thread on exactly the same thing.

Funny thing the memories that you asking that brought back to me.

I think because ‘the hut’as we called it was a bit further out into the school playing field,we all thought we were being given a treat by going in there for lessons.

Have a nice day.

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Weird hive mind question... For people 45+... Who grew up in the UK... on 07:01 - Jul 25 with 118 views

Tangledupin_Blue

We had them in about 1960 and called them prefabs.Too big to be Portacabins.

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Weird hive mind question... For people 45+... Who grew up in the UK... on 07:04 - Jul 25 with 118 views

Churchman

Prefabs

Bedfordshire

Weird hive mind question... For people 45+... Who grew up in the UK... on 07:26 - Jul 25 with 94 views

dickie

They were referred to as "huts" in Trimley in the late 80s and 90s. Having worked in schools in Essex for 20 years they're still referred to as "demountables" there

Weird hive mind question... For people 45+... Who grew up in the UK... on 09:19 - Jul 25 with 73 views

NBVJohn

Weird hive mind question... For people 45+... Who grew up in the UK... on 23:16 - Jul 23 by OsmansCleanSheet
Demountable. Essex.

Demountable - That's my recollection as 6 year old at Rothman's school in Great Baddow. I thought I must have remembered it wrongly!

Mobiles / pre-fab later on in Suffolk

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