Pre-fab housing - Furnace (Argyll & Bute)
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Pre-fab housing - Furnace (Argyll & Bute)
Image: © The Carlisle Kid Taken: 14 Jul 2015
According to a local resident, these are "pre-fab" houses with a timber cladding applied. "Pre-fabs" were built in huge numbers after World War II in order to alleviate a chronic housing shortage. Intended as a short-term solution, most are long gone - but isolated examples still survive. Information on "pre-fabs" may be found on Wikipedia at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prefabs_in_the_UK
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Image Location
Latitude
56.15304
Longitude
-5.183639