Ashley, Staffordshire

**BereniceUK** · 31st March 2009, 18:36

Am I right in thinking this could be an old Nissan hut?

Hidden in the undergrowth in Ashley churchyard is this long abandoned wheelbarrow

**Hobbler** · 31st March 2009, 19:27

A lot of farmers bought war surplus buildings and this certainly looks like a nissen hut.

The barrow is more modern and looks like a "builders barrow" - I pulled an identical one out the canal last year and we use it round the yard.

**yamahapaul** · 1st April 2009, 08:40

Great find Berenice

The wheel barrow in my garden is looking like that!

**theStig** · 2nd April 2009, 10:38

Great pictures here's some info on nissen huts

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nissen_hut

**yamahapaul** · 6th April 2009, 20:58

The pictures have gone

**BereniceUK** · 7th April 2009, 04:10

They're back!

So embarrassing! Ashley's not in Shropshire as I'd assumed, it's in Staffordshire. Big slap on the wrist for me as I had to move all my Ashley photos to a different album.

**yamahapaul** · 7th April 2009, 10:31

Originally Posted by BereniceUK

They're back!

So embarrassing! Ashley's not in Shropshire as I'd assumed, it's in Staffordshire. Big slap on the wrist for me as I had to move all my Ashley photos to a different album.

I've edited accordingly

**BereniceUK** · 7th April 2009, 14:02

Originally Posted by yamahapaul

I've edited accordingly

Cheers,yp

**Hobbler** · 7th April 2009, 14:46

So can anyone tell the difference between a Nissen Hut , a Romney Hut and a Quonset Hut ?

I have fond memories of Nissen Huts being used as School Changing Rooms and Scout Huts - but the massive cylindrical coal stoves used to heat them were a bit lethal.

**BereniceUK** · 7th April 2009, 14:54

Never heard of Romney huts. I'm probably being a bit thick but I don't understand the design of Nissen huts. Seems to me that there's only about half the hut that you could stand up in - the centre bit. There's an awful lot to the sides that would be too low for standing. So was that used for storage or beds or whatever the main use of a particular hut was?