Prefab homes / Elisabeth Blanchet.

Main entry:

Blanchet, Elisabeth, author.

Title & Author:

Prefab homes / Elisabeth Blanchet.

Publication:

Oxford : Shire Publications, 2014.

Description:

64 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.

Series:

Shire library ; no. 788

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (page 63) and index.
Delivering palaces for the people -- Prefab life -- Seventy years on -- Regeneration projects and twenty-first century prefabs -- Prefabs to visit.
Current Copyright Fee: GBP17.50 0.

Summary:

"At the end of the Second World War, Winston Churchill promised to manufacture half a million prefabricated bungalows to ease the housing shortage ... Nicknamed 'palaces for the people', and with convenient kitchens, bathrooms and heating systems, they proved popular and instead of being replaced as intended were defended by residents who campaigned to preserve their family homes and communities. Nearly seventy years later the last of these two-bedroom homes are being demolished"--Publisher's description.

Resources:
Table of contents
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description

ISBN:

9780747813576
0747813574
(PDF e-book)
9781784420291
(ePub)
9781784420284

Subject:

Prefabricated houses Great Britain History.
Prefabricated houses.
Architecture, Domestic Great Britain History.
Great Britain.

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Shire library ; no. 788.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 287756
Call No.: BIB 229122
Status: Available

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