Old Desford Airfield building?..or not???

27 Aug 2009 01:51 #1 by stevie
Revisited the old Desford aerodrome a couple of weeks ago and was wondering if anybody out there in AIX land could solve this lil' mystery for me as i've been trying to work if this old building is Desford airfield related or not for years. Cheers in advance!

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Another shot here. It's to the left of the big farm building! -

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I'm sure you guys wont let me down! You never have yet!!!!;)
Cheers,
Steve

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27 Aug 2009 18:44 #2 by Paul Francis
Replied by Paul Francis on topic Old Desford Airfield building?..or not???
Stevie (me old mate), the building in question is an 'Arcon' House, designed by a group (Arcon) of architects at the end of WW2 as part of the Government's re-housing scheme This had begun c.1944 with a competition to design pre-fabricated housing (ie factory made) as a means of re-housing people made homeless by the blitz. There were huge housing estates built of Arcon houses, constructed c.1946 as there were of many other types of prefabs such as Uni-Seco and Aluminium houses built by the aircraft industry.

Some of these buildings also made their way to airfields, farms and industrial estates - and I bet that is what has happened to your building - though I notice that it has now been partly re-clad in brick. They were originally built entirely of asbestos.

You can tell a builder from an archaeologist by the size of his trowel. Mine is a small one!

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