There were 45 prefabs in Trehurst Avenue and they were called the UK100. This was the only post war prefab type not designed in the UK. It was made in the USA by the Tennessee Valley Authority from wood and a material called Homasote, which was in fact a cardboard based material. They were slightly smaller the British prefabs and were composed of a hundred sections hence its name UK100. One of the stories we heard was from a Jenny Faulkner who, as a child lived in one of the nice Tarran prefabs on the Portobello Estate in Willenhall. Some of the Portobello prefabs were the American type. Jenny said that “Those of us who lived in the gravel prefabs (Tarrans) rather looked down on the houses of those who lived in what we called the cardboard prefabs”.
So the class system lived on, even in prefab land!
This photograph is of a UK100 prefab on display at the Tate gallery in London in 1945.
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