A collection of 5 black and white negatives, showing completed Wimpey No-Fines prefabricated homes, in Farnborough, Hampshire. 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 in the immediate postwar years. The term No-Fines referred to the fact that the poured concrete of the exterior walls had no fine aggregates, only coarse material. This created more permeable concrete, that was weather resistant and had good insulating properties. The method of construction was developed by the house builders George Wimpey & Co and it proved successful as a construction method, remaining in use until the 1970s. Concrete was poured into huge structural moulds and around 300,000 were built across the country. The properties depicting in the collection were built on or near to Greatfield Road.
The original Ministry of Works storage envelope lists the division as "Press" and the operator as “D”.
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
Concrete, Mid 20th Century Prefabricated House
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