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- Author: Marilyn Palmer
- Publisher: Historic England in Association with Liverpool University Press
- Year: 2016
- Pages: 272
- ISBN-10: 1848022808
- ISBN-13: 9781848022805
- Format: 21.8 x 27.7 x 1.8 cm, kieti viršeliai
- Language: English
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By the 19th century, life in most country houses changed as a result of various technical inventions such as improved water supplies, flushing water closets, boilers and pipes to provide central heating, internal communications by bells and then telephones, and better lighting by means of gas and electricity. Country houses, however, were usually too far from urban centres to take advantage of centralised sources of supply and so were obliged to set up their own systems if they wanted any of these services to improve the comfort of daily living. Some landowners chose to do this; others did not, and this book examines the motivations for their decisions. Many books have been devoted to the life of those in domestic service in such houses, but this book looks not so much at the social records of their lives as the actual physical evidence for the greater levels of comfort and convenience sought by landowners in country houses from the 18th to the early 20th centuries.
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- Author: Marilyn Palmer
- Publisher: Historic England in Association with Liverpool University Press
- Year: 2016
- Pages: 272
- ISBN-10: 1848022808
- ISBN-13: 9781848022805
- Format: 21.8 x 27.7 x 1.8 cm, kieti viršeliai
- Language: English English
By the 19th century, life in most country houses changed as a result of various technical inventions such as improved water supplies, flushing water closets, boilers and pipes to provide central heating, internal communications by bells and then telephones, and better lighting by means of gas and electricity. Country houses, however, were usually too far from urban centres to take advantage of centralised sources of supply and so were obliged to set up their own systems if they wanted any of these services to improve the comfort of daily living. Some landowners chose to do this; others did not, and this book examines the motivations for their decisions. Many books have been devoted to the life of those in domestic service in such houses, but this book looks not so much at the social records of their lives as the actual physical evidence for the greater levels of comfort and convenience sought by landowners in country houses from the 18th to the early 20th centuries.
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