What are/were the BENT HOUSES in South Shields Durham in 1859?
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I can not tell you much about South Shields but you may find this useful on your search as the Bents arrived in Canada from England in 1831 and were known for their Log home.\nCheck it out:\nhttp://www.bramhill.com/Ch03-1-12-BentHouse.htm
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http://www.humbul.ac.uk/output/byheading.php?sub=history
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search on google images.  Also if you go onto local council pages there may be something.  Ive just done a history dissertation and found google image search the best- it then throws up lots of other sites.  Good luck
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It was originally an inn.....\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Angel,_Islington
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They were called tenements or tenement slums. In 1839, the first tenement was built in New York to house the many thousands of new immigrants flooding into the city each year. By 1860, tenement squares were popping up all over the place. They became known for squalid living conditions and high rents. They were also breeding grounds for crime.\n\nReformers such as Upton Sinclair pressed for reform. Jacob Riis wrote a book called "How the Other Half Lives" which focussed attention on the tenements. As a result, New York State passed a law called the New York State Tenement House Act to improve the conditions in tenements. This led to further housing reforms culminating in the Congress passing the Housing Act of 1949 to clean slums and reconstruct housing units for the poor.
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They were probably invented sometime during the Iron Age. I.e. at a time when there were tools available to cut them etc.\nConstruction materials vary according to availability of materials. So, in London for example, clay was abundant so most houses are made of bricks. New Zealand houses are generally made of timber etc.\nSo cinder blocks would be probably something you would have found in volcanic areas.\nThe modern cinder blocks would have to be invented after the development of coal fired power stations.
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Try www.oldtimepottery.com
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http://www.penrithcity.nsw.gov.au/index.asp?id=1330\n\nhttp://homepages.rootsweb.com/~bloxsom/ralston%20family/ralgen1-.htm
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Westhoughton, Lancs?\n\nThink so
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bent, crouch and defoe
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There is one on Claypath in Durham City, not sure of the name. It is opposite the theatre complex.
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I found if you go to this web page you might get your answer www.geocities.com/jojogoob/Edinburgh.htm, or you could do a google or yahoo search.
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The most common type of shelter in the U.K. during World War 2 was called the Anderson shelter. This was a shelter that many people could build in their own back garden by digging a large hole , covering it with a curved roof of corrugated iron and then piling the earth back on top of the roof. This was quite effective for shrapnel and incendiary bombs but not so good for a very close hit with high explosive.\nFor people without this shelter the government advice was to get into the cupboard under the stairs as this was the strongest part of the house.\nThe London Underground stations were also used as shelters for thousands of people but there were two major disasters when the crowd panicked at one station and many people were crushed to death and Stockwell station received a direct hit from a large bomb.
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I was just doing this topic in geography...OK got my book here, but I'm not sure if this is what your loOKing for:\n\nok...typical characteristic of an inner city area...\n\nduring the industrial revolution factories and houses for workers were built around the city centre.  This zone of old factories and housing is called the inner city.  Today many of the old factories have closed and some of the houses have been demolished.  This area is often refered to as a zone of change and is undergoing urban renewal.\n\nOK...are services low, middle or high order?\n\nServices in the inner city area are mostly high order services, such as jewellers and furniture shops.\n\nOK...is the housing mainly terraced?\n\ntwo or three storey terraced houses, or four or five storey tenemant blocks.\nso yes housing is mainly terraced.\n\nOK...how old is the housing...is the housing run down...\n\nyes the housing is probably quite old (not sure of the dates, sorry), but alot of it would have been demolished and re-newed.\nif there is some housing that hasn't been restored, yes it will be run down (an example would be London docklands back before it was restored, just ask if you want my stuff on that).
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You should check out Craig's List for the Charleston region. It will give you a great selection. I found my house that way!   http://charleston.craigslist.org/
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Tudor style buildings have six distinctive features -\n\n    * Decorative half-timbering\n    * Steeply pitched roof\n    * Prominent cross gables\n    * Tall, narrow windows\n    * Small window panes\n    * Large chimneys, often topped with decorative chimney pots
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The sewer can be the outter edge of the circle...the Pub should be the Inner circle :)