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 ?

Building materials were in short supply after the war, some right into
the 1960s. Lots of different non-standard building techniques were
tried. Step grandson lived in a house from the period that had two
massive reinforced concrete beams running across the ceiling of the
living room.

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Colin Bignell