Some people like to make prefabs the butts of cheap jokes, but prefabs themselves are not cheap. When the prefab building programme was launched in 1944 the annual cost was £150 million. A thousand pounds was needed to buy just one prefab!
Leaf through the glossy pages of Prefab World and you will find that some prefabs have walls that are smooth and straight while other prefabs have walls that are wavy and corrugated. Some prefabs have roofs that are flat while others have roofs that slope. Some prefabs have front doors positioned bang in the centre while others have front doors positioned near one of the ends. Some prefab estates are connected by long roads while others are connected by small footpaths. Some estates are mega-complexes with more than two hundred prefabs while others are micro-clusters with less than forty. What a lush variety of forms are denoted by the 'prefab' word! The universe has just eleven dimensions while in Britain alone there are thirteen different prefab types. If you were lucky enough to win a short break in a prefab you could find yourself padding around anything from a Hamish (type 1 or type 2), a Duplex Sheath, a Bricket Wood Special, a Blackburn Orlit to a Foamed Slag!
Prefab evolution has largely followed the Darwinian principle of 'survival of the flattest'. Continued turbulence in the atmosphere means that the 'AIROH Aluminium Bungalows' on our estate (AIROH is an acronym for 'Aircraft Industries Research Organisation in Housing') are getting a little bit flatter every day. A banner now links Newtin and Woodhedge Roads which proclaims "We Are Proud Of Our AIROHs!" Brass nameplates engraved with the words Airoh House Residence are making dazzling one up-manship appearances on front doors. Plans are afoot to explore different facets of our prefab world and holiday exchanges are being arranged with those who reside in Spooner, Universal, and Uni-Seco prefabs. After all:

"What do they know of prefabs who only one prefab knows?"

Until very recently the itinerary of Twiverton's 'Roaming City Coach Company' was confined to the usual suspects - to places like Cheddar Gorges, Spooky Hole, Weston-Super-Mud, the Minehole Holiday Camp, and the Lion Tamer's House at Leatlong. However people now hanker for wider horizons. In the Summer after next there will be guided tours to the Tarrans prefabs of Hull, the Phoenixs of Bristol, and the Arcons of Newport! The Bath & Wilting says our estate is poised to pip the Georgian city of Bath at the post and win the UNESCO World Heritage Site
status it so richly deserves.