Nissen huts

[Gillian c 1]

We lived in a Nissan hut in Anerley se20 can’t find any info about it we was the last to move out

[Len carr 0]

On 10/15/2008 at 12:57 PM, katyjay said:

Does anyone know where there were some Nissen huts for housing? I distinctly remember as a little kid, going with my mum to visit one of her brothers and family in a Nissen hut. I seem to think they were surrounded by dirt, not tarmac, so had obviously been used for something else previously, like commercial use. The inside had been divided into rooms, but I've often wondered since, where they were located.

Nissan hits on Colwick woods were at the bottom of Harrogate rd Bakersfield

[Beekay 4,263]

I remember the Colwick woods Nissen huts, vividly. My Aunt Evelyn and Uncle Mark lived there. I often went to visit and stay over with my cousins.  To get there, it was either a Sneinton bus or a 44 trolley bus to the terminus and walk through the woods. I always thought what a wonderful place to live, considering we lived in a slum area off Denman Street. They were eventually moved to a new estate called Clifton. To us, that was like the other end of England.

Kath, if you're still following this, you were right! They did exist for tenants. B.

[katyjay 4,983]

Beekay, if they were the only Nissan huts in Nottingham then that's where my uncle and family must have been. They got rehoused in a council house somewhere near Wells Rd after that.

[bamber 128]

Nissen huts ... pah ... that's modern stuff. Parkdale School was using huts from the Boer War as classrooms until the 1990s.

[albert smith 803]

If anyone is still thinking ‘cars’, forget it, this is a Nissan Hut    -  the doors at both ends assuring adequate ventilation! When doing my 2 years Nat. Service (1946-48) I had the misfortune to spend three periods living in one, the first time was a real shocker!  Our initial 18 weeks had been at the Victorian barracks at Deal in Kent (nuff said!) moving in September to Lympstone in ‘Glorious Devon’, what a difference. Brick built chalet type huts right on the banks of the River Exe, cafeteria served meals, NO fatigues-guard duties-church parades etc.

 

This ‘holiday camp’ period of training ended the 1^st. week in January when 20 of us travelled by rail overnight to a ‘camp’, concentration comes to mind, 3 miles inland from Towyn, mid Wales. On the parade square we were treated to a ‘chocolate box’ view of Cader Idris, the second  highest mountain in Wales at the head of the valley and this morning bathed in sunlight showing off the cap of fresh fallen snow!    A nice memory among some very physically rough ones to end on as ‘life’ in the huts has been well described!                                               

[IAN FINN 568]

Sounds like the forerunner of Butlins albert i went there a few times in the 60s.

[LizzieM 9,222]

Love your stories Albert.  Hope you’re both keeping well

[katyjay 4,983]

If the photo of the Nissan hut is what all of them looked like, I am shocked. I visited my aunt and uncle when I was very small, and thought their Nissan hut was enormous, in my mind's eye, it was as big as an aircraft hanger! Just goes to show how everything looked so big when you were little!

[Cliff Ton 9,937]

Courtesy of Wiki, I've discovered that Nissen huts were named after Major Peter Nissen who invented them during WW1.

[doodle 35]

When I used to go with my BILs father and his dog to collect golf balls from the golf course at Bulwell I'm sure we walked by some nissen huts justs before entering the golf course but I of course may be wrong it was a very long time ago and I was a small child.