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Examples Of Nissen Hut Houses
The Nissen huts were essentially large scale versions of air-raid shelters with similar corrugated steel roofs. Thousands of people in east Lodnon were moved into the temporary homes during the late 1940s and 1950s but after the city was rebuilt and the economy prospered they started to become empty by the late 1960s
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Temporary houses built in East London during WWII to house people displaced by bombing.
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Duddington Camp, Edinburgh. Built as an army camp but still in use as housing in 1954
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Cultybraggan Camp, Perthshire was built to house prisoners of war, but is being converted into housing.
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Nissen Hut House at Ashdown Camp, Evesham, WorcestershireNissen Huts
Recent Nissen Hut Conversions
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A former light aircraft hangar in rural Essex transformed into a 5 bed home that featured on C4's 'Grand Designs'
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Holiday chalets at Soho Farmhouse, Wiltshire known as their ‘Piglet Huts’.
See Also In Chimni
Other Interesting Sites
http://nissenbuildings.com/History.htm
http://web.mst.edu/~rogersda/umrcourses/ge342/quonset_huts-revised.pdf
http://www.invisiblethemepark.com/2013/02/quonset-hut-house-cutaway-1946/