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!

Mobiles

When I was at primary school in the 1970s we called them the mobiles. They are still there.

At secondary school (late seventies and early eighties) they were known as the cowsheds because that was what they resembled. That school is now closed and it's buildings derelict for now.

Both schools were in the Midlands.

At my DDs' primary school in Essex in the early 2,000s they were the "demountables", and have since been demounted after the school buildings were extended.

All of them were awful buildings and the heating never worked properly. They were either boiling hot or freezing cold with nothing in-between.

Terrapins -nineties/noughties. I think they were there for decades...

They were annexes in my part of the north east

Prefabs

Terrapins

#soveryquiet this is taken from the 'pedia that is wiki 😃

Terrapin" like Portakabin, is a portable building manufacturer, although the term "terrapin building" is often used to describe any modular or prefabricated building.[6] The use of “terrapin” dates back further than “Portakabin or “Portacabin” as the company has been trading for over 60 years. The phrase “terrapin classroom”[7] arose from the sudden need for additional classroom space following the post-World War II baby boom era, and is now common usage for any portable classroom.

We had them at my primary and secondary school 70-80's. Oil fired heaters covered in cages that we used to hang our costs from when it was wet 😂

Mobiles or prefabs at my schools

Terrapins!

Huts, and they were numbered. Kent grammar in the eighties.

I think mobiles? Not sure but in year 10 our English block was burned down and we had a load of those put up instead and then one by one they got burned too. I went to a lovely, lovely secondary school :)

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Elliott huts. Who was Elliott?

1970s Harrow they were mobiles. We couldn't call them huts, as the huts that had been decommissioned had to be recommissioned so we already had huts when the "mobiles" were dropped.

Testament to the 1960s baby boom. (They also had to lose our kitchens and school dinners had to be delivered from another school).

Weren't the 70s great ?

Mobiles - SW England

@Tinabn

Elliott huts. Who was Elliott?

Elliott are a long established supplier of mobile cabins and construction plant hire company.

Mobiles at my school....if you went behind the mobiles you were either going for a snog or a fag...

Ours were Terrapins

Terrapins! With those lovely heaters in cages and they were always toasty!

We called them Horsa Huts. No idea why 🤷🏼‍♀️

We had two next door to each other which were just referred to as The Annexe.

prefab?

Mobike ir terrapin

Mobiles or for some reason The Unit for our one at primary school. No idea why - it was an ordinary year 2 classroom.

Horse hits here to - they were installed to provide extra space where the school leaving age was raised