{"id":55325,"date":"2017-05-19T01:30:36","date_gmt":"2017-05-18T18:30:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/postwar-prefabs-were-huge-progress-for-many-residents-letter\/"},"modified":"2017-05-19T01:40:00","modified_gmt":"2017-05-18T18:40:00","slug":"postwar-prefabs-were-huge-progress-for-many-residents-letter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/postwar-prefabs-were-huge-progress-for-many-residents-letter\/","title":{"rendered":"Postwar prefabs were huge progress for many residents | Letter"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nReader Norman Bone in praise of postwar prefabricated housingYour caption to a photo of postwar prefabs (Build your grand design for a humble price, 13 May) refers to \u201cthe bad old days of prefab housing\u201d, which is about as far from the truth as it would be possible to get. These imaginative and wonderful dwellings provided an urgently needed solution to the UK\u2019s massive postwar housing shortage and presented a huge improvement in living standards for most of their early residents, many of whom would have lost their homes during the London blitz of 1940\/41.These prefabs were undoubtedly very small, but their kitchens and bathrooms would have been a revelation to people whose previous dwellings would have had shared outside toilets and no running hot water. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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