"Andrew Gabriel" wrote in message
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In article ,
"IMM" writes:

Victorian house were speculative and only had a design life of about 50
years too. Every torn away some of the facade of Victorian houses?
Bodgers
were there then too.

******** is the term which springs to mind.

The design life of most houses built from the Victorian era through
to the early 1960's (excluding some council prefab constructions) was
200 years.

What? The Victorians only had foundations a foot thick or so. Yes, they
made em to last. Sure they did! Most have been pulled down, with only the
those that by luck, or being slightly better built, surviving.

The term Jerry Built, was from a Victorina builder named Jerry Bros.




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