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Nissen huts.
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TessAkaBridgetTheFidget | Report | 21 Jan 2010 22:39 |
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Linda | Report | 21 Jan 2010 20:28 |
My Irish Nan lived in a prefab in Derry N. Ireland until her death in 1962. Her granddaughter then bought it off the council and it sits in her garden to this day. I remember going over to Derry when I was a Child and loving staying there. |
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Jean (Monmouth) | Report | 21 Jan 2010 19:59 |
So pleased to have brought back memories for everyone! Surprising what a few words can bring back, isnt it? Jean |
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maggiewinchester | Report | 21 Jan 2010 19:08 |
HI Huia, |
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Teresa In Canada | Report | 21 Jan 2010 18:26 |
We lived in the nissen huts in Chandlers Ford Hants until I was five. My dad was a Polish refugee and mum is British. I remember mum heating the iron on the stove and all sorts of things from that time. I have lots of photos of that time too. Mum says that life was hard for her as she didn't speak Polish so couldn't converse with everyone. I was born in 1952 but also still remember rationing. |
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Julia | Report | 21 Jan 2010 10:45 |
During my childhood, and come to think about it, most of my adulthood, I remember a collection of Nissen Huts, just over the border in Nottinghamshire. Me mother always said it was a Polish camp during the war, but as they fought on our side, it obviously was not for prisoners of war. Perhaps, it was for refugees and displaced persons. |
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Susan | Report | 21 Jan 2010 10:30 |
Hi Lived in a Nissen hut in Perth Australia. 1969 for 11months |
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Huia | Report | 20 Jan 2010 22:55 |
Hi, Mags, I looked up my atlas since I had it out, and Holbury is in the New Forest area. What would I do without my atlas. It is very handy when people on this site mention places. Not that I needed it for Tangmere. |
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Huia | Report | 20 Jan 2010 22:51 |
Bob2067 etc, offhand I thought Newham was in a part of greater London, but I hauled out my atlas just to check up and the only Newham I could find listed was north of Alnwick. As for your gasworks watch, I havent got it. I deny all knowledge of it. It was the other person wot took it. |
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maggiewinchester | Report | 20 Jan 2010 22:43 |
Anyone know where Holbury is? LOL |
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Bobtanian | Report | 20 Jan 2010 22:42 |
Huia. |
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Huia | Report | 20 Jan 2010 22:38 |
Jude, would you believe that somebody in New Zealand actually knows where Tangmere is? My OH was from not too far away. The family were bombed out of one of their homes. I think he said there were 3 airfields near them, so the area was bombed a lot by the enemy. |
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TessAkaBridgetTheFidget | Report | 20 Jan 2010 22:16 |
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McB | Report | 20 Jan 2010 19:54 |
My workshop is an old nissan hut, been in it for the last ten years. |
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Jean (Monmouth) | Report | 20 Jan 2010 19:31 |
Hi Linda, yes prefabs were so popular that people were fighting to get on the list for one! Those who lived in them were often not anxious to move when the government wanted to pull them down. |
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Bobtanian | Report | 20 Jan 2010 19:26 |
In London just off the OLD becton road was a playing field named the Vernons. THAT was taken over by squatters, after the end of the war but later was re claimed by the schools as their playing fields and changing rooms...... |
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~`*`Jude`*`~ | Report | 20 Jan 2010 19:25 |
Well l remember near Tangmere, which is near Arundel, the corrogated (tin) round topped dwellings in the fields, my parents told me they were for the Polish soldiers. l think we actually drove into the fields, my father (l think ) gave them supplies of some sort, probably cigerettes!! l can see in my head now men in dark coloured knee length coats, and some sort of fire set up for cooking.... ( 3 prongs and a pot hanging from the middle onto the fire) |
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LindainBerkshire1736004 | Report | 20 Jan 2010 19:19 |
Hi Jean |
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Jean (Monmouth) | Report | 20 Jan 2010 19:01 |
I was going to put this on the war years thread, then changed my mind, as you do! |