A collection of 3 black and white negatives, showing the exteriors of prefabricated US Temporary Housing bungalows, in Stanwell, Surrey . The Temporary Housing Act of 1944/5 was intended to alleviate the acute housing shortages of the immediate postwar years, mostly through the construction of prefabricated, modular housing. The Ministry of Works was the government department tasked with the organisation and efficiency of the push for housing construction. A number of individual designs and construction methods for housing were built during the 1940s. The US temporary house was an imported, timber framed, prefabricated model from the United States. They were the cheapest prefabricated model adopted by the Ministry and around 8,500 of this were built. None have survived into the twenty-first century.
The original Ministry of Works storage envelope lists the division as “D.D.T.H” and the operator as “E”.
All of the images were catalogued and digitised as part of a 2020 project.
This is part of the Sub Series: PSA01/04/H Housing; within the Series: PSA01/04 Negatives; within the Collection: PSA01 Property Services Agency
Source: Historic England Archive
Timber, Mid 20th Century Prefabricated House
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