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Page 52
The modern Council house , with its bathroom and electric light , is smaller than
the stockbroker's villa , but it is recognizably the same kind of house , which the
farm labourer's cottage is not . A person who has grown up in a Council housing
...
The modern Council house , with its bathroom and electric light , is smaller than
the stockbroker's villa , but it is recognizably the same kind of house , which the
farm labourer's cottage is not . A person who has grown up in a Council housing
...
Page 54
In those vast new wildernesses of glass and brick the sharp distinctions of the
older kind of town , with its slums and mansions , or of the country , with its manor
- houses and squalid cottages , no longer exist . There are wide gradations of ...
In those vast new wildernesses of glass and brick the sharp distinctions of the
older kind of town , with its slums and mansions , or of the country , with its manor
- houses and squalid cottages , no longer exist . There are wide gradations of ...
Page 73
... for “ Butler . One in family , eight in staff ” are appearing in the press . The
bombed - out populations of the East End go hungry and homeless while
wealthier victims simply step into their cars and flee to comfortable country
houses ...
... for “ Butler . One in family , eight in staff ” are appearing in the press . The
bombed - out populations of the East End go hungry and homeless while
wealthier victims simply step into their cars and flee to comfortable country
houses ...
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