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| (...) Ok, I took some pics last week First of all, some pretty standard terraces (URL) A variety of surface finishes and one that has its windows changed (URL) A couple of cornershops (2 URLs) And one that used to be a cornershop, included to show (...) (18 years ago, 17-Mar-07, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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| (...) Thanks very much for doing this and following up, Tim. I was hoping you would. It is nice to see the different types of housing from different countries. Question(s): Would these types of houses comprise an area or neighborhood? Are there (...) (18 years ago, 19-Mar-07, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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| (...) This might give you some idea: (URL) are typically a few blocks of these houses together, but occasionally you will find isolated rows, sometimes even outside of built up areas. Some towns and cities seem to be largely made up of these. They (...) (18 years ago, 19-Mar-07, to lugnet.town)
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| (...) Thanks for the description. Very helpful. The pictures don't look all that rough or depressing to me, but then again I'm quite badass myself. ;o) I figured even rough areas have kids that need to run around. Here in NYC there are rough areas (...) (18 years ago, 19-Mar-07, to lugnet.town)
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| (...) When they were built, as cheap housing for factory workers in new industrial towns, there were often acres and acres of them. Not a blade of grass in sight. Yes, the kids played in the street - but then, all traffic was horse-drawn and there (...) (18 years ago, 21-Mar-07, to lugnet.town)
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| (...) Actually, without wishing to classist, it is the poorer area where kids can still be found playing on the street, middle class parents taxi their kids around from one safe environment to another. This is a recent thing, when I was young (I'm (...) (18 years ago, 24-Mar-07, to lugnet.town)
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| (...) (URL) The roofs are a bit different but there is an obvious link back to old England. Tim (18 years ago, 29-Apr-07, to lugnet.town)
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