Sunday, January 19, 2014

OH BOY! BRIGG PREFABS IN THE EARLY 1960s


This shared Brigg picture is currently creating plenty of interest on the Facebook page Brigg Memories.
It shows lads at the Woodbine Avenue prefabs in 1960/1 and features "yours truly" (left) with Tommy Kennedy, David Andrew and Ian Stapleton.
We all lived in prefabs and the pic was taken near the Fisher household - No 16, just away to the right).  
Tommy and Ian lived on the other side of the street, while the Stapleton household was up the road, to the right of where the photographer was standing.
We also have this print in our family archive, and I always presumed ours was the only copy.
As our Dad - now no longer with us - was a keen amateur photographer I thought he took it. But may be this is not the case. It was taken before we set off in the morning for Glebe Road School. Not many pix of life on Woodbine Grove prefabs seem to have survived.
So far 11 Facebook users have said they like this photo on Brigg Memories.
For those who may be wondering, the Woodbine Avenue prefabs covered the area that's now the children's park - bordered by Preston Drive, Hawthorn Avenue and South View Avenue.
These prefabs were put up after the Second World War, when there was a housing crisis, and knocked down in the 1970s.
Many from the "Baby Boomer" generation grew up here before their families managed to secure brick-built council houses from Brigg UDC.
The prefabs were small with only two bedrooms, but had "mod cons" like fridges and bathrooms with the luxury of "inside" toilets.
If you are on Facebook, there are some interesting comments, and memories, posted about the pic. Well worth a look!

2 comments:

Ken Harrison said...

Wot happened, Mige??

gmsmith said...

I was part of the baby boom Nigel having been born in No. 36 Woodbine Avenue . As I recall each prefab had a corrugated iron shed , probably used in those days as a coal house.
Happy days , even with the big dog called Benji roaming the prefabs terrorising us kids , or was that just a myth ?