Bournemouth At War / PREFABS Traditional Cache

Bournemouth has a great history. I have documented many famous people, major events and occurrences in previous geocaching series highlighting the history of Bournemouth. This series focuses on many of the key incidents and stories in the town when Bournemouth was at war. A complete list of all the caches in this series are bookmarked.

The war may have ended, however, in 1946 the town still suffered some setbacks and turmoil, as well as having to pick up the pieces to enable the town to grow once more.



The demand for houses, especially from demobilised servicemen, grew throughout the year and to cope with it the first of 276 aluminium prefabricated bungalows were erected in Craigmoor Avenue in May. It is believed that the first was constructed at the site of 137 Craigmoor Avenue.

The prefabs served their purpose successfully, and were replaced in the mid-1970s by more modern structures called Steen House sectional houses, which can still be seen today.


[Prefabs on nearby Mallard Road]