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Re: Hady -
« Reply #15 on: February 22, 2017, 06:12:21 PM »
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« Reply #16 on: February 23, 2017, 07:36:47 PM »
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     Many of the concrete block houses you refer to were manufactured by a company called Reema  who had a large factory on Storforth Lane opposite where the Bowling Alley is.
     I went to work there in 1960 and we had  many multi million pound contracts  to build housing estates ,tower blocks  and village halls  in Sheffield,Crewe and Leeds to name a few.The blocks were delivered to site by lorries  carrying a dozen blocks at once and by the next day the carcass of the house was already assembled.
    It was in the days when old slum houses were being demolished and there was a desperate need for houses and flats.I only stayed there two years but eventually that type of dwelling  went out of favour and the company folded.

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« Reply #17 on: February 23, 2017, 08:09:58 PM »
The bottom half of our street was all 'pre-fabs'. They've all been replaced with new bungalows and houses now.

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« Reply #18 on: February 23, 2017, 08:42:07 PM »
They look a lot like the ones at Manor Road at Ashgate,some on Grangewood  and some near the Whitecotes pub which I think were built soon after the war.I noticed one on Grangewood has been  built round it with bricks.Whether they have then removed the concrete slabs  I wouldn't know.Those  you have shown look quite nice.

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« Reply #19 on: February 23, 2017, 10:36:19 PM »
If memory serves me right, the bungalow in this view
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@53.234365,-1.2909665,3a,75y,122.19h,76.09t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sKQEAcy3BBDltrkewerfQLA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en
was built on the site of a prefab that suffered from an internal fire which caused a build up of gas or heat and exploded.

This view
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@53.2345555,-1.2898038,3a,75y,315.27h,70.43t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1so77mhlgi8-MKe-YTJ7pMeg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en
is on the next 'parallel' road. The end two prefabs had been rebricked and escaped demolition.

Here's the modern 3d overhead view of the entire area.


Yellow are original build two bedroom houses.
Light blue were the prefabs, how houses and bungalows.
Red is the 2 surviving bricked prefabs.
Dark blue is the bungalow on plot of the fire damaged prefab.

Sorry OC, no dorma or swiss cottage looking places  :(
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« Reply #20 on: February 24, 2017, 05:06:17 PM »
These ones ?
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@53.2323434,-1.4021641,3a,37.5y,97.76h,83.77t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sDs_ts-mTUsUEFW4S2O9Qxw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en

Non of the ones are like these though.
If you take the map down the road and to the bend there is a house there which is slightly different to the rest, having white painted wood to the lower half - I like it. Very different
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« Reply #21 on: February 24, 2017, 05:10:33 PM »
OC
     Many of the concrete block houses you refer to were manufactured by a company called Reema  who had a large factory on Storforth Lane opposite where the Bowling Alley is.
     I went to work there in 1960 and we had  many multi million pound contracts  to build housing estates ,tower blocks  and village halls  in Sheffield,Crewe and Leeds to name a few.The blocks were delivered to site by lorries  carrying a dozen blocks at once and by the next day the carcass of the house was already assembled.
    It was in the days when old slum houses were being demolished and there was a desperate need for houses and flats.I only stayed there two years but eventually that type of dwelling  went out of favour and the company folded.

I've had another look at the ones in our village Umpire.
Ex Coal Board House which they have only in the last maybe 3 years or so done up, putting new roofs on and what looks like a pebble dashing to cover the concrete.
They have probably done more to the houses than that but this is the finished product.

The houses in Hady are very different with a brick bottom half and the top half 'appears to come out on a slant with windows. The roof is then set back from this.
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« Reply #22 on: February 24, 2017, 05:50:33 PM »
They are the original houses. Probably private owned. I think all the council ones have been re-bricked.
White concrete bottom. https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@53.2317253,-1.4012205,3a,75y,263.01h,73.08t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sOvmWllNjSXOo6gaKzSp8Zw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en
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« Reply #23 on: February 24, 2017, 07:03:01 PM »
Strange how the top half seems to come out over the bottom half - and the guttering is right over the bottom windows??
How does that work when it rains?
I can't see guttering below the roof.
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« Reply #25 on: February 24, 2017, 07:36:17 PM »
They do have guttering   ;)
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@53.2317253,-1.4012205,3a,15y,263.84h,90.79t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sOvmWllNjSXOo6gaKzSp8Zw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en

Sorry I didn't word that very well fly.
There appears to no guttering directly below the roof - it's much lower just above the windows - how does that work for rain coming off the roof?
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« Reply #26 on: February 24, 2017, 08:01:43 PM »
You mean the upper part of the roof don't you. I suppose the rain just runs down the upper tiles straight down onto the lower ones, then into the gutter.
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« Reply #27 on: February 25, 2017, 10:58:20 AM »
That's a lot of roof with water going down there, obviously   the guttering must cope though.
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« Reply #28 on: February 25, 2017, 07:19:06 PM »
I have been talking to  a chap I know today who lived on Houldsworth Drive on that estate in the late 1980/1990's .He told me they were definitely Coal Board houses which were condemned  along with others throughout the country in 1986 by an Act of Parliament.
Grants were made available to update them which included removing the concrete panels  which they were built with.
The roofs were suspended  by heavy pit props  and first breeze blocks and then bricks were built  up to the roof level.Once that was done the concrete panels were then removed.
Does that make sense?

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« Reply #29 on: February 25, 2017, 07:37:27 PM »
I have been talking to  a chap I know today who lived on Houldsworth Drive on that estate in the late 1980/1990's .He told me they were definitely Coal Board houses which were condemned  along with others throughout the country in 1986 by an Act of Parliament.
Grants were made available to update them which included removing the concrete panels  which they were built with.
The roofs were suspended  by heavy pit props  and first breeze blocks and then bricks were built  up to the roof level.Once that was done the concrete panels were then removed.
Does that make sense?

It does Umpire thanks for that.
Obviously very precise work and I'm supposing it was cheaper then flattening them and rebuilding, although it wouldn't have been cheap would it.

Certainly some of the houses on the  Hurst Farm Estate in Matlock had  massive re structural work done to them but they do look good now.

They haven't got the same outer finish though as Hady Estate houses, so I'm thinking maybe it was decided to finish them off in a more 'unique' way to others?
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