Beyond the Bridges: The Suburbs of Shrewsbury 1760-1960
| Autor: | Trinder, Barrie |
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| EAN: | 9781860773938 |
| Sachgruppe: | Kunst |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Seitenzahl: | 224 |
| Produktart: | Gebunden |
| Veröffentlichungsdatum: | 01.05.2008 |
| Schlagworte: | History - General History |
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Shrewsbury is an archetypal 'city on a hill', the spires and towers of its churches crowning a sandstone bluff that is almost encircled by a horseshoe bend of the River Severn. Suburbs began to grow beyond the town's medieval limits in the mid-18th century. The elegant villas of attorneys were followed by imposing terraces, cluster houses for workers at the Ditherington flax mill, freehold land society estates, terraces occupied by railwaymen, and, in the 20th century, by 'homes fit for heroes' - the 'Dunroamin'-style estates and 'prefabs'. Shrewsbury is an ideal subject for the study of suburbs, being large enough to offer interesting variation, but small enough to have retained most of its suburban heritage.
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