The Prefab Museum

A museum housed in a prefab home on one of the last remaining prefab estates in the UK that chronicles the history of the estate.

The estate itself is under threat of being demolished, so the museum is a last attempt to record the social history of the area.

In fact, with the prefab estate it chronicles being slowly demolished by the council to be replaced with generic blocks of flats, the museum could end by 2017 an isolated island within a building site.

Of the 186 prefab homes on the estate, 30 have already been demolished, although work seems to be in a hiatus at the moment as more attempts are made to preserve the remaining homes.

You’d still be advised to get there sooner rather than later, to see the estate as it is before the demolition work resumes. The estate is as worthy a visit as the museum, and indeed, without the estate, the museum loses something as it becomes a chronicle of what was lost rather than a living exhibition of the area that surrounds it.