Bellevue Road

The Prefabs

The Prefabs, Bellevue Road

From c.1945 until the mid-1950s, when they were all demolished, numerous "prefabs" — prefabricated houses — lined Bellevue Road on the Common side. They had been built swiftly to rehouse people whose homes had been bombed. [Exact dates, and photographs?]

Bellevue, c.1955, showing the prefabs
Bellevue, c.1955, showing numerous “pre-fabs”. The highest permanent number on Bellevue Road is 34; these prefabs on the Common side were numbered from 35 upwards [to 65, with two unnumbered on the map].

These were put up speedily to house people who had been bombed out during the war. Along with other prefabs on the edge of the Common, including nearby Bolingbroke Grove, they were demolished in the mid-1950s.