Hawksley BL8 prefabs, Beeches Road, Chelmsford

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Hawksley BL8 prefabs, Beeches Road, Chelmsford

Image: © Robin Webster Taken: 25 Mar 2012

There are many along this side of the road, they were built in 1948-50 and are remarkable survivors of the great many prefabs built to various designs after WWII. This design has an aluminium skin and frame, which accounts suggest has proved very durable. The bus is on route 45A.

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Image Location

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Latitude
51.734818
Longitude
0.453395