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Wates Group Ltd is a family owned construction, property services and development company in the United Kingdom.
Bradley House and Maydew House on Abbeyfield Estate, Rotherhithe – completed by Wates in 1967
Concrete fuel barges manufactured for military service by Wates
Prefabs were a major part of the delivery plan to address the United Kingdom's post–World War II housing shortage. They were envisaged by war-time prime minister Winston Churchill in March 1944, and l
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…projects; this included barges, air raid shelters, trench linings, and Mulberry harbours. During the postwar era, the firm applied the same techniques to system built housing (both high and low rise units); it ultimately completed in excess of 60,000 such units. During the late 1990s, the company was extensively restructured…
An AIROH prefab on permanent display at the St Fagans National Museum of History, as it would have appeared in 1950
Airey houses in Seacroft, Leeds
BISF houses in Port Glasgow with modified (left) and original (right) cladding
Cornish Unit houses in Barnsley, South Yorkshire.