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"Almost certainly, more Nissen buildings have been constructed than any other one design. Nissen huts have been hospitals, barracks, prisons, farms. They've helped win two World Wars, explore the Arctic and tame the outback."  Sewell Nissen Hut at the Chiltern Open Air Museum http://www.coam.org.uk/about-us/historic-buildings/sewell-nissen-hut/  The Nissen Italian Chapel on Orkney http://www.northlinkferries.co.uk/orkney-blog/building-italian-chapel/  Nissen homes in Bridge Road, Stratford in June 1969  Nissen Hut Hospital http://www.avondlog.nl/tags/rudy-kousbroek?page=2  Re-purposed wartime Nissen Huts in Malta  Re-purposed wartime Nissen Huts in Wales http://heritageofwalesnews.blogspot.co.uk/2014/04/nissen-hut-one-of-great-design-classics.html  A Nissen hut and water tower are two of very few remains of military structures left in Howbery Park http://www.shiny7.uk/7coy1941-1943.html  County Armagh  'Nissenhütten' providing emergency housing in post-war Germany http://www.wir-rheinlaender.lvr.de/ausstellung/szenen/52_nissenhuette.htm  Nissen houses never quite caught on http://www.yeovilhistory.info/nissen-petren.htm  At Wagga-Wagga, Australia  Nissen in Antarctica http://www.travelingsolemates.com/antarctica-sunrise-a-museum-final-sea-ice-walk/  Nissen at war http://blog.maryevans.com/2013/12/a-celebration-of-prefabrication-nissen-huts-the-first-world-war.html  A whole Nissen street, Icelend, 1941 http://web.mst.edu/~rogersda/umrcourses/ge342/quonset_huts-revised.pdf  Cultybraggan POW camp in Perthshire is still there https://stv.tv/news/scotland/170079-new-history-of-cultybraggan-pow-camp-produced/  There's plenty still about... http://www.pascott.co.uk/blog/?p=214  Rick Mayall as Inspector Gideon Prycke inspects a mysterious hut.  Noooooo! That's a Quonset Hut. American. Totally different thing     And, imitation being the sincerst, (L to R) that's a Portaseal Hut, Pacific Hut, Butler Hut, Cowin Hut Wartime Huts: The Development, Typology and Identification of Temporary Military Buildings in Britain 1914-1945 by Karey L. Draper Mirror News: WW1 Nissen Hut revamped for 21st century by inventor's great-grandson as office |
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