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[[File:Terraced House Icon.png|Thumb|right|Terraced Houses Icon]] The opening titles of Coronation Street to the [[Welsh Streets]] of Liverpool where Ringo Starr was born, the terraced Street is one of the most iconic images of British Housing. For what the private builder and ' most local authorities desired above all was the 'semi'; it was the 'semi' which fulfilled most popular aspirations'<ref> M. Swenarton, Homes Fit for Heroes: The Political and Architecture of Early State Housing in Britain (London, 1981), p.144.</ref> | [[File:Terraced House Icon.png|Thumb|right|Terraced Houses Icon]] The opening titles of Coronation Street to the [[Welsh Streets]] of Liverpool where Ringo Starr was born, the terraced Street is one of the most iconic images of British Housing. In England, the first streets of houses with uniform fronts were built by Nicholas Barbon, the Huguenot entrepreneur during the rebuilding of London after the Great Fire of 1665. The Georgian idea of treating a row of houses as if it were a palace front, giving the central houses columned fronts under a shared pediment, appeared first in London's Grosvenor Square and in Bath's Queen Square. Speculative builders like Thomas Cubitt picked up on the theme and terraces soon became common-place. | ||
For what the private builder and ' most local authorities desired above all was the 'semi'; it was the 'semi' which fulfilled most popular aspirations'<ref> M. Swenarton, Homes Fit for Heroes: The Political and Architecture of Early State Housing in Britain (London, 1981), p.144.</ref> | |||
Revision as of 15:36, 25 January 2015
The opening titles of Coronation Street to the Welsh Streets of Liverpool where Ringo Starr was born, the terraced Street is one of the most iconic images of British Housing. In England, the first streets of houses with uniform fronts were built by Nicholas Barbon, the Huguenot entrepreneur during the rebuilding of London after the Great Fire of 1665. The Georgian idea of treating a row of houses as if it were a palace front, giving the central houses columned fronts under a shared pediment, appeared first in London's Grosvenor Square and in Bath's Queen Square. Speculative builders like Thomas Cubitt picked up on the theme and terraces soon became common-place.
For what the private builder and ' most local authorities desired above all was the 'semi'; it was the 'semi' which fulfilled most popular aspirations'<ref> M. Swenarton, Homes Fit for Heroes: The Political and Architecture of Early State Housing in Britain (London, 1981), p.144.</ref>
See Also In Chimni
Other Interesting Web Sites
FlickrGroup: Modernist Houses Of The 1930s
www.createstreets.com 'CreateStreets' Campaign for More Terraced Housing
References
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