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Sash home windows in Liverpool © Historic England Archive DP136126As the popularity of terraces grew, builders experimented with new types including circuses and crescents, good examples of which exist in Brighton, Bristol and Weston-Super-Mare. The Georgian terrace is commonly considered certainly one of England’s biggest contributions to the city kind; defining and shaping the historic character of places like London, Bath, Manchester, Leeds, Newcastle and Brighton, the place entire districts of terraces still exist. Around 1 / 4 of the inhabitants reside with a neighbour on each side of them in a set of three or extra uniformly designed homes, sharing common materials and plan types. This design was nonetheless basic, nonetheless; for example, in 1906, solely 750 homes out of 10,000 in Rochdale had an indoor WC. Sanitation was handled, imperfectly, by outhouses shared between a number of dwellings. These have been originally various forms of “earth … Read More