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Originally Posted by mobertol
Don't know why but the idea of saving just the facade has me thinking of American westerns where the towns look real and then are just fronts held there by wooden props!
Never heard of it Sue - bit like cutting off your nose to save your face. Replacing solid stone with breeze blocks behind the scenes doesn't grab me as an idea.
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Not sure that buildings like the Con Club would have solid stone behind the facade - probably more like the nineteenth century equivalent of breeze blocks.
We have an example of facadism in Lancaster - contoversial at the time of building a few years ago but the fuss seems to have died down now.
New Apartment Development at the old Bus Depot:: OS grid SD4862 :: Geograph Britain and Ireland - photograph every grid square!
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