Pop up museum in prefab on Wake Green Road, Moseley
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Pop up museum in prefab on Wake Green Road, Moseley
Image: © A J Paxton Taken: 16 Sep 2017
Visited during a heritage weekend in 2017. A detached prefab bungalow of the Phoenix type, one of 17 in a row, some of the few survivors of over 4,000 prefabs built in Birmingham at the end of the second world war to meet an urgent need for housing, made much worse by wartime destruction. They have two bedrooms and were built with a central service unit with a kitchen and bathroom back-to-back. The bathroom has an indoor toilet. Central service pipes, a coal fire and back boiler provided hot water and a hot air central heating system. The kitchen was of the fitted Frankfurt type, pioneered by the Austrian architect Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky in 1927, with labour saving equipment. https://www.iconeye.com/opinion/icon-of-the-month/how-radical-modernist-frankfurt-kitchen These features made what was an otherwise basic and temporary building luxurious by the standards of most Birmingham people. https://www.prefabmuseum.uk/
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