EAW004848 ENGLAND (1947). Prefabricated housing around Foster Avenue, Clewer Green, 1947

Future site of Hilltop Primary School

More foundations prepared, ready for the pre-fabs to be built

Oblong foundations prepared, ready for the pre-fabs to be built.

All Saints Church, rebuilt in 1973, as a result of war damage. See the destructor to the east.

The Wolf Public House, later The Maypole, now, alas, no more.

In addition to pre-fabs, more substantial brick houses were constructed in the years immediately after the war. These are in Sheepcote Road. This photograph, and others on The Royal Windsor Website, were taken during the exceptionally bad weather that preceded the floods in the Thames Valley of March 1947.

Post war ‘pre-fabs’ constructed in an attempt to ease the chronic shortage of housing in Windsor and elsewhere throughout the UK.

I believe this to be the Dedworth borehole for additional water supplies to Windsor. I was once told that there was more naturally occurring fluoride in the water here than in toothpaste!

The Dust Destructor showing damage to the chimney following damage caused by a Flying Bomb (V1) that fell there at 3.27pm, 1st July 1944. Although 60 or so people were hurt, mainly by flying glass, no-one was killed. 350 houses were damaged, 12 seriously. The nearby All Saints Church was damaged too which eventually led to its demolition and rebuild 20 years later. The area is now known as Greenacre. There is more information on the Royal Windsor Website Forum.