In the years immediately following the last war, the severe shortage of  housing – through years of bombing raids by the enemy, made it a tremendous challenge to try and rehouse all the displaced families.  The main thrust of the housing campaign was by way of corporation or local council housing – great swathes of land were compulsorily purchased from landowners and councils to allow for a new housing to go up in village and small town locations.  These ‘council’ houses were necessarily built in a great hurry and as economically as was allowed. Consequently they were ugly afffairs.    When it became obvious that houses could not be built quickly enough or when land acquisition became bogged down, temporary land was taken and fantastic little prefabricated homes were put up by the thousand.  These were supposed to be temporary, slightly more than a static caravan and sited with full plumbing and electricity, they were fantastic little places for the smaller family.