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A Nissen hut is a prefabricated steel structure originally for military use, especially as barracks, made from a 210° portion of a cylindrical skin of corrugated iron. It was designed during the First World War by the Canadian-American-British engineer and inventor Major Peter Norman Nissen .
They are Carshalton Road, Esher Road, Kingston Road, Mitcham Road, Surbiton Road, Sutton Road, Wallington Road, and Wimbledon Road. When the estate was first constructed, the portion between the A30 and Upper College Ride, was littered with demolished concrete blockhouses and military installations, such as Nissen huts.
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Mitcham was industrialised first along the banks of the Wandle, where snuff, copper, flour, iron and dye were all worked. Mitcham, along with nearby Merton Abbey, became the calico cloth printing centres of England by 1750. Asprey, suppliers of luxury goods made from various materials, was founded in Mitcham as a silk-printing business in 1781.
English: Meldreth: Nissen huts There are six of these remarkably well maintained large nissen huts in a small industrial estate off Station Road. They certainly date from the Second World War as they are shown as a block of six on the Ordnance Survey's map of 1950.
Several Nissen huts were erected in the woods to the west of the Hall and the concrete bases of several of them are still there (in 2019) together with small amounts of the corrugated iron which covered them, although some concrete was removed in the 1980s because it was causing vegetation and trees to die. In the woods to the SW of the house ...
The road allowed lorries to travel from the north to the south of Gibraltar entirely within the Rock. The tunnel still contains the remains of World War II buildings such as Nissen huts, kitchens, offices as well as a generating station and period anti-submarine nets.
Royal Engineers, in front of a Nissen hut in 1917 Two Nissen stamps, installed c. 1909 at the Sound Democrat Mill near Silverton, Colorado Nissen huts at Altcar Training Camp Peter Norman Nissen , DSO (6 August 1871 – 2 March 1930), was a Canadian - American - British mining engineer, inventor and army officer.