Kitchen in a Howard House, Beech Avenue, Swindon, Wiltshire

Photograph taken June 1947 © Copyright Crown copyright.NMR ref: h194/6

Prefabricated housing was made to 11 designs between 1944 and 1948 as part of the Temporary Housing Programme to relieve the post war housing shortage. This picture from 1947 shows the kitchen in one of the houses in Swindon. Some of the housing proved not to be particularly temporary. This house is still standing today (2014) on Beech Avenue, in the Pinehurst area of Swindon.

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Swindon Swindon

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1940s (1946 - 1949)

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The Yeoman's House dates is a 15th-century thatched and timber-framed cottage with jettied overhangs. The central section, which was originally a two-storey hall is filled in with brick in a 'herringbone' pattern. Yeomen owned a small amount of land.

Kitchen in a Howard House, Beech Avenue, Swindon, Wiltshire

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