A newspaper article from February 1943 showing a Nissen hut in use as temporary wartime housing in Lambeth. Over 43,000 homes were destroyed in Lambeth during the war and a further 38,000 damaged. The borough erected temporary prefabs during and after the war to help alleviate the housing shortage.From a series of albums containing newspaper and magazine clippings, assorted ephemera and a diary, kept by Mrs Lucy Awdry of 14 Franconia Road, Clapham, for the duration of World War II and recording wartime life in London. During the war Mrs Awdry volunteered with the Women’s Voluntary Service (WVS) assisting with fire watch duties and also at the Clapham War Savings Centre. Included in the Lambeth Archives Home Front project 2005.Ref: IV\/169\/Vol.13<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A newspaper article from February 1943 showing a Nissen hut in use as temporary wartime housing in Lambeth. Over 43,000 homes were destroyed in Lambeth during the war and a further 38,000 damaged. The borough erected temporary prefabs during and after the war to help alleviate the housing shortage.From a series of albums containing newspaper […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22671,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,9,286,20,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-1926-1950","category-buildings-architecture","category-awdry_collection","category-housing","category-war-and-armed-forces"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n