On 18 Jan 2006 04:11:06 -0800, wrote:

|I normally like to read the Jeff Howwell column in the Telegraph (web
|version) but in todays issue he says "British houses have always been
|built with timber stud partitions".
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|My early 70s house has brick or blockwork walls throughout, upstairs
|and down. Should these be called something other than partitions, or is
|he talking ********?

The equivalent in medieval houses was wattle and daub which was clearly the
predecessor of timber stud partitions.
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