These buildings once stood for many years at Montague Road in the Sholing area of Southampton, but by the mid-1960s they had disappeared to make way for more permanent shops.

Originally built as only temporary premises, the huts went on to stand on the site serving local people for more than ten years.

Back more than 40 years ago, the shops were part of what was then called the Surrey Estate in Sholing, which was one of the first post-war developments in Southampton during the 1946-48 era and was named after the large house that once stood in Botley Road.

The homes were made up of three and five-storey blocks of flats, prefabricated steel and concrete houses totalling 436 homes.

Nearby were many of the old small prefab bungalows that were such a familiar sight in Southampton during the years after the war.

In this eastern area of Southampton, streets in Thornhill were named after poets such as Shelley, Chaucer and Burns, while those in and around the Surrey estate were named after composers like Sullivan, Elgar and Parry. In the Butts Road area names of painters including Landseer and Constable were used.