Pre Fabricated Housing at Barmoss Avenue.
Built after the war as a temporary measure to ease the housing situation the demobbed soldiers and
their families were moved into these temporary homes. They were to last no more than 20 years but
as many local people will recall that done a little better than that.
Very modern they felt to their new tenants, they had a bathroom and separate toilet and even a fridge was included!
The houses lasted for close to 30 years, until a winter storm removed most of the roofs from them. The
families were then moved out to the new houses in the scheme now called Slaemuir, the high flats being the first to be occupied and the back and front door terraced housing still being completed. My mother recalls being told as a young girl that they were going to live in a new house and visiting it for the first time with her parents, she was very excited. The land had previously been farm land and the sheep obviously had not been contained yet. To my mothers delight, as a little girl she thought  the sheep standing in the front garden came with the house and was most upset when my grandfather
explained to her that it did not!

The Pre-Fabs

The Area Today

Front of the houses of 26&28 Woodside Avenue. The girls in the photograph are Margaret Murphy and Wilma coyle (nee Graham).

You can clearly see the houses in the background of this picture.

Taken in the front Garden of Woodside Avenue.

Prefabs consisted of an aluminium frame, asbestos sheets ans some 2000 components.
They could be assembled in 4 hours and would last ten years!

These homes were used throughout the country the photographs abouve is of some in England tken in 1946.

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