Affordable Housing
Introduction
The photograph on this page of Affordable Housing by Anthony O'Neil as part of the Geograph project.
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Affordable Housing
Image: © Anthony O'Neil Taken: 25 Feb 2024
These were the first, post-war 'Prefabs' to be built in Altrincham, to relieve the acute housing shortage created by German bombing - aimed at the nearby armaments factories in Broadheath. When first erected, in the 1940s, they consisted of naked concrete panels slotted together on site. More recently, they received brick cladding, which improved both the aesthetics and the insulation. They were on the corner of the street leading to the then Altrincham Gas Works, and rail tracks - set into the roadway of Moss Lane - periodically carried coal wagons from Altrincham to the Works, past their front doors.
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Image Location
Latitude
53.385116
Longitude
-2.340944