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TEMPORARY WARTIME PREFAB ACCOMMODATION: BRIXTON NORTH

TEMPORARY WARTIME PREFAB ACCOMMODATION: BRIXTON NORTH

William and Iris Lark (on right) with the godparents of their daughter Sandra, in front of a prefabricated Nissen hut. The Lark's were allocated a prefab in Loughborough Gardens built, North Brixton, by American engineers in 1944 as temporary accommodation for bombed-out families. Sandra recalls: ' the entrance led into a large room with fireplace in the centre of the wall that divided the bedroom at the rear from the main living area. Mother hung a curtain on the right which hid the sink in which we bathed, the cooker and the dining table....there were two outside privies [toilets] and coal sheds in front, for our house and the one next door.Digital image by kind permission of Sandra Clark. From the Lambeth Archives Home Front project 2005.
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Collection:Home Front Project 2005
Image type:Photograph
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Ref:06784
Identifier:SPd4066/1
Date:c.1945

#1926 - 1950  #BRIXTON NORTH  #BUILDINGS / ARCHITECTURE  #Home Front Project 2005  #Photograph