Radiorails, I seem to have misled you - we had a bathroom in the pre-fab but this wash a quick wash and brush up before we went to the party. We would have had a bath and hair wash the night before.
Funny you should mention this, I used to tap dance but I kept falling in the sink. Away from the corn, I remember the prefab in Court Lane and on Slade Road and on Saturday on my tour of my old haunts (my wife hates these tours) I saw that those in Slade Road have been replaced by similar size bungalows. Was their a special hospital here ...Highcroft Hall? My aunt who was brought up in Grays Road, Harborne, married a Yorkshireman, moved to Bradford and was allotted a prefab, I went to stay with them and they enthused as to how cosy it wasHaving always lived in a house with bathroom - even in the RAF baths were available - I cannot say that I have ever been on close terms with draining boards of any type. I do remember wooden ones, which I am sure were usually removable for thorough scrubbing.
However, my memories of wooden draining boards are of my late father, of blessed memory, using them when at a family party for his party piece of tap dancing. Tap dancing was, of course very popular in the twenties and thirties when he was a young man but he kept it up well into late age. He was far more fleet of foot than I, as I never really managed to be a good as he was.
Looking at this forum pic from a post in the Kensington Rd thread I can see some prefabs in Woodside Rd Selly Park.
In a 1945 aerial view there are also some prefabs visible in Selly Ave.
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As a former resident of these very prefabs, (I lived there for 25 years) I'm tempted to attend but think I'll be giving it a miss as I live in Lancashire these days. Of course, I've got many memories of growing up there, mostly happy.An upcoming event at Wake Green. The link below is an interesting site, with more info - not just Brum prefabs. Viv.
https://www.prefabmuseum.uk/moving-prefab/
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