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| The Black Bull pub, Brigg |
Brigg Blog's Saturday night wanderings this week took us to the Black Bull, the White Horse (Wetherspoon's) and the Britannia - in that order.
A few items of Fisher family nostalgia were exchanged at the Bull and then passed round for others in the immediate area to take a look.How much weekly rent did you have to pay Brigg Urban District Council for a prefab in Woodbine Grove in 1956?
A letter from the UDC which answers that question has survived the intervening 58 years.
It confirmed the tenancy and gave helpful information about gas and electricity supplies.
We are now in possession of an official letter from the council granting permission for a third clothes post to be installed in the back garden of 8 Central Square in 1963.
We kid you not...tenants really did need to apply.
1 comment:
......most of the folks nowadays don't know what a pre-fab was, Nige......
.......I remember going to a caravan site in Wales on a very regular basis ......most of the so-called caravans were converted railway carriages.....
Like pre-fabs they were meant to be temporary, but were very snug, cosy
and it was somewhat of a shame that they disappeared....
Perhaps the government could consider modern 'per-frabricated' homes now to meet the housing shortage.....this would ease the problem of folks living in cramped flats....flats often part of converted terraced houses......thus, such properties could be re-converted back in a cheap, single small house....and folks living in pre-fabs could afford to buy these cheap, re-converted houses, freeing-up the pre-fabs for other folks living in cramped flats........dead simps and cyclic...but will the politicians listen?
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