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The original plan was a single brick skin round the prefab, but decided to double brick cavity wall & later removal of prefab from inside, Which we did. We dug the footings in November 78 & started laying bricks but were stopped by the weather over Christmas & January 79. Eldest son Timothy going out.
           Building the front
While building the house we had to stop to build canoes when ordered. Swimming pool in forground awaiting solar panels.
Fibreglass sheet under panels
Family on roof
           Me plastering
We ( myself & 4 youngest children) built the pool in 4 weeks from digging the first spit to filling with water.I borrowed a mixer. The base was 4" of concrete painted & the sides were fibre glass with 3" of reinforced concrete behind. Size 24ft X 16ft X 4ft deep. Half in the ground.
Frame before pouring concrete April 1978
The pool had a filter system  of sand in a fibre glass tank & a water pump with a long tube with a brush attached to a hose pipe. After cleaning the pool  I skimmed the muck off the filter & washed under the water tap then replaced the clean sand.
This is the pool abandond after  the children had all left home

 

 

 

 

 

 

             Three different Dwellings on one plot   

                            
The old railway carriage. We bought  & moved here 30th July 1957The prefab came from Enfield & was delivered on an articulated lorry, it arrived in a snow storm in January 59. We erected it & moved in on the 7th of July 59 our eldest daughters 1st birthday.
                 
                  Prefab & bubble carI designed the solar panels in 1976 & was so impressed with them I put a steel frame on the prefab roof with 4 panels on.In November 78 I started to build the house to accommodate 29 panels ( the largest display on a private house in the U.K.) for the swimming pool, built in summer 78.
                  
Building south wall. Next doors back yard                                 Front south corner
               
            Felt & tile lathes north side                             Laying bedroom floors
             
          John helping me with panels                   Solar panels finished Easter 1980

         Building the swimming pool in spring 1978

 
                  Earth banked up.                          Slabs on.
 
                           Children                                Family