“TRAGIC stories relating to overcrowding and insanitary housing conditions continue to reach the department”, said Keighley’s medical officer of health in 1945, “with little prospect of anything being done to meet their amelioration”.
These prefabricated houses on the Woodhouse estate were part of a solution to a post-war housing shortage. Keighley’s first 50 ‘prefabs’ – ‘Tarran Mark IV temporary houses’ – were delivered in April of 1946 and put up at Bracken Bank, followed by another 45 at Woodhouse.
These Woodhouse examples were to remain until 1963.
This submitted photograph dates from 1961, when Keighley still had a townscape of working factories and mill chimneys.
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