Nr 65 Polmeere Road, Treneere Estate; The new prefab(ricated bungalow); 1946. Walls of asbestos-cement sheeting with insulating fibreglass quilt sandwich. A temporary solution to a housing need, the bungalows simply lasted. It was a warm enough house, though noisy when it rained. For us it had...
The men who built Treneere Estate, 1938. My uncle Bert Pascoe worked on the Estate as a painter and decorator. Those were the days when paints were mixed, no ready made stuff in cans. I still have his books on making paints. I suspect that many of these men have relatives here today. Not a hard...