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Regarding the doors in Captain Cooks cottage the reason for their smallness was that most of the cottages were built on the cheap, especially houses by a dockyard or by the sea.
People working in the dockyard were allowed to take lengths of wood home with them, but the length couldn't be anymore than 3'-0". This is why in early houses all of the windows were just under three foot square.
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Arthur
Posts from arthurarnell in thread „London Bridge In The Arizona Desert?“
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In some of the old London bridges people used to live in houses and shops built on the bridge. At that time they also went skating on the Thames and I have seen paintings of braziers alight on the actual ice. No worries about carbon footprints or global warming then
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if i remember rightly Debbie Reyonalds or one of her husbands or relatives had something to do with purchasing London Bridge.
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Arthur
