"Andy Hall" wrote in message
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On Tue, 30 Sep 2003 20:21:08 +0100, "L Reid"
wrote:



Thanks for that. I think I'll be going down the route of putting the
insulation on the loft floor, rather than attaching it to the rafters,
and
was wondering if I'd still have to deal with the possibility of
condensation
if doing this. The roof is also partially within the bedrooms so I do
have
an angled loft-space to take care off. Pic here of a similar building :

http://home.golden.net/~elspeth/images/Colonies021.jpg

Cheers!

Leigh


Nice places. What is the background to their being referred to as
Colonies?


.andy

To email, substitute .nospam with .gl

I'm actually not sure! I've managed to dig up quite a lot of history about
these buildings, and it does make an interesting read, though no where does
it state why they're called 'colonies'. I believe there's something similar
in Dublin? The majority of the colony developments in edinburgh were done by
the Edinburgh Co-operative Building Company, which was basically a
conglomerate of lower middle tradesmen (stonemason's etc) that got together
to build decent houses for themselves and their families, with their own
gardens.

If I find some links I'll post 'em, as their history is interesting reading
(but probably moreso if you're living in them!).

Leigh