Monument record MKE124801 - Prefabricated Houses, Sussex Street

Twentieth Century prefabricated houses are visible as buildings on RAF/106G/UK/1378/V/5072 04-APR-1946. The houses have been demolished on the latest Next Perspectives APGB Imagery TR3565 14-APR-2015. The features were recorded as part of the Thanet Landscape Mapping project. (1-2)

Five post-Second World War prefab houses erected in former bomb sites in Sussex Street, Ramsgate recorded from aerial photographs as part of the Historic England Ramsgate HAZ project.. These houses were part of a group of 23 prefabs erected around the gas works in Sussex Street, Denmark Street, Finsbury Road and Alma Road on land which appears to have been requisitioned by the Borough of Ramsgate for the construction of housing in November 1947 (Thanet Advertiser 11 November 1947). All prefabs had been replaced by other buildings by the 1960s. (3)

<1> Historic England Archive, 1941-1960, Historic England Archive RAF vertical aerial photographs, RAF/106G/UK/1378/V/5072 04-APR-1946 (Archive). SKE57101.

<2> Next Perspectives, 2003-2021, Next Perspectives APGB orthophotography, Next Perspectives APGB Imagery TR3565 14-APR-2015 (Archive). SKE57110.

<3> RAF, 1950, Vertical aerial photograph RAF 541/484 3002 07-APR-1950 (Photograph). SKE59063.