Austin Village

Austin Village is a First World War housing estate of prefabs between Longbridge and Northfield, Birmingham.

[1] He imported 200 red cedar wood pre-fabricated bungalows from the Aladdin Company, Bay City, Michigan, USA.

These were erected with twenty-five conventional brick-built semi-detached houses at intervals to create firebreaks.

The village was completed in eleven months and rented to Austin workers with seven in each bungalow and twelve in each house.

[4] Historic England has listed the conservation area on its Heritage at Risk Register due to its deterioration.

Some of the two hundred cedar wood prefabricated bungalows, erected during the First World War in Austin Village
Austin Village between the wars — Ordnance Survey 1:2500 map, 1936, showing fields around the village