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We lived in a prefab in Chadwell. These were excellent places to live — they didn’t rust although people think they would have. To our dismay they pulled them down. The kitchen was huge and was built in. The prefab was made of concrete supports and aluminium. Everybody that lived in them were pleased with them.

The one we lived in was in St Marys Road in Chadwell. This is where the council office is now which is opposite the church. They weren’t pretty they were just square. There was probable a few hundred people living in them in that area — there were streets of about half a dozen roads of prefabs.

Three people lived in our prefab — this was me, my wife and my mother in law. We lived in there because there was no other property available. We thought we had a palace when we got that place!

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