A collection of 2 black and white negatives, showing completed prototype Tarran prefabricated bungalows, outside the Tate Gallery in London. The Temporary Housing Act of 1944/5 was intended to alleviate the acute housing shortages of the immediate postwar years. The Ministry of Works was the government department tasked with the organisation and efficiency of the push for housing construction. The Tarran prefab was a wooden framed single story home with precast concrete panels. The homes were designed by the Hull based building firm Tarran Industries Ltd, and around 19,000 homes were constructed. During the latter years of the second world war (1944-45), the Ministry of Works put on three exhibitions at the Tate to promote prototypes of the common forms of prefabricated homes. The exhibition displayed models, including the Arcon, Tarran and Uni-Seco, that would become common in alleviating the housing shortages caused by wartime bombing. The exhibitions proved to be very popular.
Both of the negatives have been digitised as part of a 2019 project.
The original Ministry of Works envelope records the division as "D.D.T.H" and the operator as "T".
This is part of the Sub Series: PSA01/04/H Housing; within the Series: PSA01/04 Negatives; within the Collection: PSA01 Property Services Agency
Source: Historic England Archive
Mid 20th Century Prefabricated House, Mid 20th Century Art Gallery
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