Category: Housing
The thread about the Lochend Steel Houses; Edinburgh’s first prefabricated houses, why some people didn’t want them and why others didn’t want to build them
The thread about the street with the “ridiculous” name that became an inter-war demonstration scheme for innovative, “non-standard” housing
The thread about Sighthill Neuk; what makes this quiet and leafy, post-war, suburban street so very special and totally unique?
The thread about AIROHs, ARCONs, Tarrans and Uni-SECOs; temporary, post-war, prefabricated housing in Edinburgh and where it was built
The thread about Blackburns, BISFs, Orlits and Whitson-Fairhursts. A guide to pre-fabricated, permanent, post-war housing in Edinburgh, how to recognise it and where to see it
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