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Moseley Prefabs.
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The Moseley prefabs in Wake Green Road. Although they may not look much by today's standards, the pre-fabricated house represented an improvement in living conditions for their inhabitants, many of whom had been housed in crumbling, unsanitary Victorian tenements, or left homeless when the Luftwaffe dropped bare bombs all over Birmz. 
The Temporary Housing Act, designed to address the chronic post-war housing shortage, saw some 4,000 prefabs built in Birmz, along with many other thousands across the UK. 
The style here is known as The Phoenix;
each prefab was heated, with indoor plumbing and bathrooms, and fitted with the latest labour saving devices. 
More often than not, the labour to build them was provided by German and Italian prisoners of war.
16 of the 17 in Wake Green Rd prefabs are Grade II listed; some are still occupied, and there is an ongoing project to restore them.
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Location: Wake Green Rd, Moseley, Birmingham B13, UK

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