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Originally Posted by garinda
Personally I'm much happier living in my stone built, mill worker's terraced house, unique to this part of the north, than I would be in a modern built house, whose generic appearance owes more to the Toy Town school of architecture.
Much of the new housing that's replaced some of the cleared Victorian looks shoddily built, as witnessed by the new housing that was demolished in Church, and some looks very uncared for already.
Newly built 3 bedroomed house, bathroom, central heating, all mod cons. Outdoor storage space for mattresses/pit bull run, or alternatively could be used as a garden.
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Something we can agree on Garinda, having worked in the building industry on both new build and refurbishment I know which I would pick every time, and like you would be a stone built terrace house with character. In the early seventies I worked on the deck access flats at Shad for John Laing construction, the system used was off Swedish design called Jesperson, all prefabricated at a factory in Hyde and transported to Blackburn, this was supposed to be the way forward as were tower blocks, (there were around 5 in Blackburn) less than forty years later most of these are gone, but I believe Blackburn are still paying for them