Postwar prefabs were huge progress for many residents | Letter

Norman Bone says his London in-laws did not have inside toilets and running hot water until they were rehoused in 1959.Your caption to a photo of postwar prefabs (Build your grand design for a humble price, 13 May) refers to “the bad old days of prefab housing”, which is about as far from the truth as it would be possible to get.My in-laws lived in central London and were not bombed but they did not get such facilities, that we today consider essential, until the London county counci