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Windows:
Late 1800's - The '2 Up 2 Down'
An understanding of the times:
This type of house was for the working
class of the time, and often built in quite long terraces. Alleyway
access to the back garden was needed for deliveries of coal and for
the ‘night soil people’ to call with their horse-drawn two-wheel
tumble-cart, to empty the toilet in the garden. In through the front
door and you were in the lounge, through another door and you were
in the kitchen, and that was the downstairs. Maybe a door in between
would open on to the steep and narrow staircase, leading to the 'two
up', and that was it!
Fresh water was hand-pumped from a
well as there was no piped water, no electricity and no indoor loo,
let alone a bathroom. Nowadays this type of property, modernised to
include all amenities for home comfort, has a popular place in our
housing stock and is rightly seen by many as having an old-world and
cosy cottage charm.
The doors often had character and
were quite small, and the windows were invariably of the vertical
sliding-sash type.
To all you cottage people out
there who would never in a million years consider defacing their
property with modern ugly double-glazed PVC-U windows, all I have to
say is, take a look at these pictures:
| A 'normal' casement PVC-U
double-glazed replacement window; pretty good-looking, and
very economical.
Window shown is from Veka. |
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| A vertical sliding PVC-U
double-glazed replacement window, absolutely superb and of
course you like the look of this best, but it comes at a
premium price.
Window shown is from Rehau (pronounced ‘ray-how’). |
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| Maldon, Essex.
 This is a job we fitted (May 2001) with
Eurocell PVC-U double-glazed traditional 'look-alikes'. The
lady who bought the house recently has the indoors very
charmingly in sympathy with the cottage feel and before having
see the windows was adamant that she would never deface the
house with 'plastic' windows, exclaiming ‘ugh’ and
grimacing as if she were eating a lemon. Now the story is
different - she loves her new 'plastic' windows.
Note the property either side has not had
its windows changed with anywhere near the same sympathy. Ours
is the left-hand of the pair of the red brick houses, with the
red-tiled path. |
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"You pays your money and
takes your choice"
Jump to other house-building eras of this century:
Edwardian/Victorian – pre-First World War
Late 1920s/late 1930s – pre-Second World War
Post-war - 1940s through 1950s
1960s
1970s
1980s
1990s – present day
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