Monument record 0833300000 - Finch Lane Prefabs

Summary

46 post war prefab houses shown on vertical aerial photographs

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

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Type and Period (1)

  • (Former Type) PREFABRICATED HOUSE (Modern - 1950 AD? to 1987 AD)

Description

Prefabs. Some on the left of A413 as you leave Amersham for the Chalfonts - but perhaps they were post war [B1].
46 prefab houses, shown on vertical aerial photographs 10th June 1950, appearing brand new [B2].
AP of 6th March 1985 shows site in the process of demolition [B3].
AP of 20th June 1989 shows site re-developed for housing [B4].
46 prefab houses built at Finch Lane, Amersham, intended to provide only temporary housing. In fact the houses were occupied for forty years until the site was redeveloped for permanent housing in 1987. One of the houses, a 'Universal House, mark 3' manufactured in nearby Rickmansworth was rebuilt at the Chiltern Open Air Museum in 1992-3 (B5).

Sources (6)

  • <1>SBC22084 Verbal communication: Elliott Viney. 1995. Corespondance to the Buckinghamshire County Museum.
  • <2>SBC22085 Aerial Photograph: RAF. 1950. Run 26 frame 4089.
  • <3>SBC22086 Aerial Photograph: Bucks County Survey. 1985. Run 519 frame RC8-HG 25.
  • <4>SBC22087 Aerial Photograph: JASAIR. 1989. Run 481 Frame 61 89 196.
  • <5>SBC22088 Digital archive: Chiltern Open Air Museum. Information from the Chiltern Open Air Museum website.
  • <6>SBC22860 Digital archive: Chiltern Open Air Museum. 2005-7. Chiltern Open Air Museum website.

Location

Grid reference Centred SU 97733 96486 (192m by 175m)
Civil Parish AMERSHAM, Chiltern, Buckinghamshire

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Record last edited

Dec 9 2016 6:30PM

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