"charles" wrote in message
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alan_m wrote:
On 04/04/2021 18:47, Mark Carver wrote:
A knackered old 1950s bungalow near me has been demolished in the last
few days.

I went to look at the remains. Rendered block construction, and a large
pile of steel reinforcement rods ?

Was that a standard construction method back then for small houses, and
why ?


Concrete raft?

does anyone remember "Bayko" - a children's building set at the time?
Steel roads and plastic panels.

Must have been based on something real.

Not necessarily, the model railways werent.