Nissen hut

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Nissen hut

a military shelter of semicircular cross section, made of corrugated steel sheet

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Nissen hut

A semicylindrically shaped prefabricated building of corrugated steel, usually thermally insulated.

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Fortunately for my recruiting efforts, I shared a Nissen hut with the squadron adjutant.

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Mr Nissen, an architect, said: "About two years ago I thought about redesigning the Nissen Hut to not only celebrate its centenary but also to facilitate people home working.

WW1 Nissen Hut revamped for 21st century by inventor's great-grandson as office; George Nissen's great-grandfather Peter Nissen designed the prefabricated semi-circular structures used in both world wars

"During the Second World War the site served as a wartime hostel for Bevin Boys and after the war, due to the severe housing shortage in the city, a number of families, including my parents, moved into the scores of Nissen huts then occupying the site.

Nostalgia: Copthorne's gone but not forgotten

Then, on the morning of May 7, 1945, the loudspeaker in the Nissen hut crackled into life.

Party abroad and at home

Vandals broke into the wartime Nissen hut at 3am and hurled valuable bowls around the building before setting light to it.

ARSON THUGS BRING MISERY TO BOWLS CLUB; Popular site is burned down

Lipsey said this week: "John Curran has done a tremendous job at Kinsley; I know the new extended and continuous restau-rant effectively three inter-connected facilities was his dream when he first took the track on in 1985 and was faced with an old Nissen hut!"

Dog Racing: Kinsley primed for gala opening

After the war, he set up his workshop in an old Nissen hut by the Afon Cymro and began driving for Crosville buses in Denbigh.

Keep it in the family; DAVID POWELL TALKS TO SOME LONG-RUNNING FAMILY BUSINESSES WHICH - LIKE THE DAILY POST - HAVE BEEN WOVEN INTO THE FABRIC OF NORTH WALES

Home that cost a fiver A SECOND World War Nissen hut bought for PS5 had been home to Edward and Doreen Warren for 33 years, but the couple, both in their 70s, had decided to trade their little hut for a modern bungalow with all mod cons, to be built on the same site.

YESTERDAYS; A strike by ambulance workers, sin bins in rugby, a PS5 home, and a newlywed couple's pet problem were all in the headlines 39 years ago 1979 MONDAY MARCH 19

www.flybe.com Passengers in the 1980s may remember having to pass through this security facility, a Nissen Hut, before entering the terminal Do you remember when the airport looked like this?

TIME FLIES; As George Best Belfast City Airport and Flybe celebrate 30 years together, we take you on a trip down memory lane

"In those early days we had a Nissen hut which was the admission point, that was joined by another Nissen hut which became the museum."

Patricia's handshake with the past; THE MONDAY INTERVIEW: PATRICIA BIRLEY''s long career, based around a few muddy fields in Northumberland, has had reverberations around the world, as PETER JACKSON discovers

But Tesco is planning to build a state-of-the-art supermarket and demolish an outdated unsatisfactory one that looks more like an overgrown Nissen hut.

Support for Tesco supermarket plan; Mailbag

When the Nissen hut between the parade ring and the track, currently occupied by a hospitality room and cafe, is eventually demolished (please), there may be scope for improving the layout.