What were temporary outside classrooms called?

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There’s a specific name, not Canin/portacabin. I’m having one of those brain-melt moments and now can’t relax until I remember it. I know this is not of the greatest importance!

We called them Elliott Huts.

The terrapin huts at my high school were a temporary addition to a then brand-new school in 1975. When I started there nine years later they were still there. Draughty and cold but usually leakproof.

A local school had temporary classrooms that had been there 50 years! School had been fighting for years to get them replaced, it was only when they were pretty much condemned that the local council agreed that new classrooms had to be built.

Mobiles here

Elliot huts
Port-a-cabins

They were called Mobiles when I was at school, oh, some 35-40 years ago (secondary school).

We called them huts.

D blocks

Demountables.

Huts at primary. Annexes at high school

Terrapins at my school. They were put up when my Mum went there in the 70s as a temporary measure. We were still using them when i went there in the mid-late 90s.

Terrapins here too:) Why were they called terrapins though? Was it the supplier?

Prefabs

Terrapins.

In some places they were called ROSLA huts (Raising Of School Leaving Age) from when the age was raised from 15 to 16.

Terrapins, huts..

Terrapin was the manufactuer's name.

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Demountables

Terrapins.

I used to work a a bloody portakabin in 1999. Highly professional job and used to sit there in my winter coat with a blanket over my knees all winter. And I was lucky it was just extremes of temperature- my boss had the office next door to the company dentist and you could hear the drill through the wall

We called ours the hilton

We used to refer to them as ‘the shanty town’!

Terrapins!

Another for prefabs

Demountables?

"Cedar-wood Classrooms" at junior school in the 70's/80s, where everything had to be known by its proper name, with the correct use of capital letters.

Someone mentioned the smell- they were fusty & poorly ventilated. Toilets were in a separate block next door.

At secondary school they were just "huts". They were freezing cold in winter & one maths teacher started every lesson in his with group star jumps to keep everyone warm.

I've heard them called T-huts too, something to do with design & construction.

Huts, 1980s, SW England.

I loved them, so much cosier than the main building.