Andrew Gabriel wrote:

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.


A agrre. They had no design life at all. The term wasn';t invented till
much later :-)

Victorian houses were anythung from rapidly erected shelters against the
weather for the mine workers, to huge grandiose works of architecture.

Soem were just thrown togher, others were built with care. Rubble
building was, and sill is a perfectly valid way to make a house if
bricks are very expensive and labor is cheap...