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Title: Police Houses on Rochdale Road, Ripponden - BRS00134
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Title
Police Houses on Rochdale Road, Ripponden - BRS00134
Description
An Airey house is a type of prefabricated house built in Great Britain following World War II.
Designed by Sir Edwin Airey to the Ministry of Works Emergency Factory Made housing programme, it features a frame of prefabricated concrete columns reinforced with tubing recycled from the frames of military vehicles. A series of shiplap style concrete panels, tied back to the columns, form the external envelope.
Airey houses were built in rural areas as a solution to the poor condition (due to the 1930s depression followed by wartime neglect) of much of the housing stock outside Britain's conurbations, due to the ease with which the prefabricated sections could be transported to remote locations.
Information courtesy: Wikipedia
Designed by Sir Edwin Airey to the Ministry of Works Emergency Factory Made housing programme, it features a frame of prefabricated concrete columns reinforced with tubing recycled from the frames of military vehicles. A series of shiplap style concrete panels, tied back to the columns, form the external envelope.
Airey houses were built in rural areas as a solution to the poor condition (due to the 1930s depression followed by wartime neglect) of much of the housing stock outside Britain's conurbations, due to the ease with which the prefabricated sections could be transported to remote locations.
Information courtesy: Wikipedia
Source
Pennine Horizons Digital Archive
Date
1940s
Rights
PHDA - Brian Sutcliffe Collection
Relation
Pennine Horizons Digital Archive
Identifier
BRS00134.tif
Collection
Citation
“Police Houses on Rochdale Road, Ripponden - BRS00134,” Pennine Horizons Digital Archive, accessed April 20, 2024, https://penninehorizons.org/items/show/1500.
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