History Of Britain In 100 Homes

Episode 1

At Chimni we are mainly focussed on house history, architecture and building styles, so our focus in this section is on house museums that celebrate and explain different periods of house building. However, dotted around the country are a series of wonderful house museums celebrating famous people and their work. We have listed some of our favourites below:

Episode 2

At Chimni we are mainly focussed on house history, architecture and building styles, so our focus in this section is on house museums that celebrate and explain different periods of house building. However, dotted around the country are a series of wonderful house museums celebrating famous people and their work. We have listed some of our favourites below:

Episode 3

In Episode 3 Phil Spencer examines how the Industrial Revolution completely changed Britain and left us with homes in Napoleonic forts, canal boats and city tenements.

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  Home 28 - A Grade 1 listed Regency townhouse on Brighton's Brunswick Square from the mid-1820s. See the Regency Townhouse one of Chimni's Historic House Museums celebrating the architecture and social history of Brighton & Hove between 1780 and 1850. http://www.rth.co.uk

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  Home 29 is ’Tower 23’ a Napoleonic era Martello Tower converted into a family home at Dymchurch on the Romney Marshes in Kent.

• File:Home 30 Budgenor Lodge – 42 apartments built into the old dormitories of a converted workhouse in Midhurst West Sussex
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  Home 31 A converted lighthouse at West Usk in Newport, South Wales built in 1821 originally designed by the eminent engineer James Walker

• File:Home 35 Canal Boat homes 35
• File:Home 36 Harbourside House, Weymouth
• File:Home ?? 1463 Anne Hathaway’s Cottage
• File:Home 38 Cottiers Cabin Omagh
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  Home 39 - The Black Mill’ windmill, Lincoln, England originally built in 1840 for the Squires family

• File:Home 40 - Glasgow ‘Tenement’ flats from the 1850. Similar to mansion blocks, a tenement looks like a street of terraced houses, but were built from the beginning as separate flats.

Episode 4

At Chimni we are mainly focussed on house history, architecture and building styles, so our focus in this section is on house museums that celebrate and explain different periods of house building. However, dotted around the country are a series of wonderful house museums celebrating famous people and their work. We have listed some of our favourites below:

See Also In Chimni

Chimni Wiki Page: House History Books

Chimni Wiki Page: House History Projects

Chimni Wiki Page: House History Categorisation