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Is it so you can see over hedgerows to shoot at pheasants or what?
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nice hat
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I think it's designed to cope with rising sea levels in areas affected by global warming.
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It's Fred Dibnah before he got into steam.
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Before the War only a few fortunate persons amongst those who earned their livelihoods in towns could afford to live at any distance from their work. Since the War this opportunity has been immensely extended. Transport facilities have been speeded up and the motorcar has been brought to a state of reliability which enables any owner with parking accommodation near his place of work to live fifteen miles away. In addition, the final obstacle to house ownership, the lack of ready money, has been met by building societies. So that today everyone having an income of over £200 can aspire to owning, eventually, his or her own house. The results of these developments deserve to be called terrific. A huge number of families wanted something as near to a country house as they could afford, and suddenly a considerable proportion of them were given the opportunity of having such houses.
In the housing boom which then began, about 1923-24, and which was hardly beginning to fall off in 1936, the problem of the small house as it is today came into existence. A multitude of mistakes were made, in layout, planning, structure and appearance, which will last as long as the houses built. But from those mistakes, and the fewer valuable developments which accompanied them, the prospective house owner can learn so much that it is worth considering them in some detail.
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"The results of these developments deserve to be called terrific."
Sorry did you say deserve to be called traffic?
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Before the War only a few fortunate persons amongst those who earned their livelihoods in towns could afford to live at any distance from their work.
My mum says that my Great Grandad used to walk to work, which was at the Croda Inks factory (in the wedge of land between the box factory at Maybury and the tram depot) from home in Balfour Street in Leith. He could have got the tram but was in the money-saving business.
I've no idea how true that was but it would have been some daily jaunt. He should have got a bike...
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A great-great (I think) Uncle who died in 1901 or 02 IIRC wrote a memoir, mostly of his childhood but to a lesser extent about his life as a minister. He wrote of walking long distances to go to churches to preach (it is a while since I read it, but I think he had a period where he travelled around preaching before he was called to a particular church, as a sort of training period).
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