Comment on The Red Brick Terraced House
This is too narrow a category. It should cover all terraced houses. For instance, the Salatire World Heritage Site contains stone fronted terraced houses, as does much of the yorkshire area, it is the terrraced form that is important - not the colour of the briocks
Comment on The Red Brick Terraced House posted 2006-02-22 by a.croft from UK
Comment on The Red Brick Terraced House
I live in one - the same one for 25 years and it's aged from 98 to 123 while I've aged from 34 to nearly 60 so it has to be a must
Comment on The Red Brick Terraced House posted 2006-02-06 by John Dearing from Reading
Comment on The Red Brick Terraced House
It's where most of us come from and the foundation for comradeship and neighbourliness.
Comment on The Red Brick Terraced House posted 2006-01-30 by Roger Wilson from Japan
Comment on The Red Brick Terraced House
The terraced house is a ubiquitous feature of British urban and rural landscapes, both forming the domestic context for, and directly shaping, the lives of millions of people of all walks of life - from exclusive Bloomsbury to our historic industrial heartlands ? from the Regency period to Victorian Britain to the modern day. Within Europe, terraced housing is a historic architectural feature unique to Britain and Ireland, and has inspired similar architecture in many historic British colonies (eg Australia). Through its place at the heart of our domestic landscapes, the terraced house has become accreted with valuable national and local, community and personal heritage values. For generations now, each historic terraced house has been the site of individually momentous life events - births, courting, marriages and deaths - as well as for communal experiences of national themes, from Royal Jubilee street parties to two World Wars, from 1950s post-war prosperity to Depression and strike. Some of these events are visible on the walls of the houses - as with the Hull tradition of placing war memorials on the walls of terraced houses - whilst others are hidden in this everyday fabric and the memories of those who live in them, perhaps to be revealed through sociological, historical and archaeological research. The value of terraced housing as a generic national cultural icon is attested to by its use in well-loved television soaps (eg 'Coronation Street') and comedy series (eg 'Open All Hours') as well as its more particular role incorporating places of cultural pilgrimage (eg the birthplace of national figures such as Ringo Starr). The iconic terraced house is also widely used to bring historical ways of living back to life for modern populations. Here the experiences of life in a small handful of houses are interpreted to provide insights into the lives of thousands - as with the restored terraces at the Welsh National Slate Museum and the National Trust's Back-to-Backs in Birmingham. The terraced house is an icon taken for granted. Its very ubiquitous, everyday nature has hidden the true importance of its role in shaping our complex local and national societies. I advocate that it is time to bring this domestic icon to the fore, and give it the recognition it deserves.
Comment on The Red Brick Terraced House posted 2006-01-30 by Pippa Pemberton from Knaresborough
Comment on The Red Brick Terraced House
Re: Redbricked terraced houses in Poland Where? I lived in Warsaw for 6 years and went to several small towns (but not in Silesia) and never saw them. Are they in the industrial Silesian part of Poland?
Comment on The Red Brick Terraced House posted 2006-01-20 by Trudie Lambert from Lincoln
Comment on The Red Brick Terraced House
Let's get rid of them. I hate them. Coupled with orange sodium lights at night they make for the most sickly, hideous urban landscape imaginable.
Comment on The Red Brick Terraced House posted 2006-01-20 by Trudie Lambert from Lincoln
Comment on The Red Brick Terraced House
This comes very close to my own thought before looking at your site and, indeed, I think it rates equal to the three-bedroomed semi-detached house, though not necessarily in red brick. Many are to be seen in varying shades of yelow/buff brick, such as those built in the 1930's from reconstituted bricks. I was born in one of the latter in 1945 and it remained my home for 23 years.
Comment on The Red Brick Terraced House posted 2006-01-16 by Richard Kent from Spalding, Lincolnshire
Comment on The Red Brick Terraced House
Red bricked terraced houses are very common here in Poland too. Its more a symbol of Britain than breathing air would be. They do exist elsewhere you know.
Comment on The Red Brick Terraced House posted 2006-01-12 by Chris Thornborrow from Poland
Comment on The Red Brick Terraced House
From the industrial workers villages to elegant Gerogian townhouses, what could be more English?
Comment on The Red Brick Terraced House posted 2007-09-03 by Nathan Snyder from London