Home and garden; notes and thoughts, practical and critical, of a worker in both . ose who feel as I do, it is a matter ofnever-ending regret that those who build them haveso little care for local tradition, and for the import-ance, from some of the higher points of view, of usinglocal material in the same spirit of simple truth thatanimated the builders of old days. The ease ofmodern communication, and the pressure of tradecompetition, together with the sordid striving forcheapness, are the regrettable causes of the buildingof the wretched mongrel cottages, roofed with slatesfrom Wales, or ma
Home and garden; notes and thoughts, practical and critical, of a worker in both . ose who feel as I do, it is a matter ofnever-ending regret that those who build them haveso little care for local tradition, and for the import-ance, from some of the higher points of view, of usinglocal material in the same spirit of simple truth thatanimated the builders of old days. The ease ofmodern communication, and the pressure of tradecompetition, together with the sordid striving forcheapness, are the regrettable causes of the buildingof the wretched mongrel cottages, roofed with slatesfrom Wales, or machine-pressed tiles from Stafford-shire, that are hung on rafters of cheap white firfrom Norway; no wonder the poor things look hideousand ashamed, and as if aware that they have no rightto exist. It is just as easy, though a little morecostly both of money and thought, to build theperfectly sound and wholesome cottage of the rightlocal material. In several cases it is being done inmy neighbourhood by owners who make it a matterof conscience to build well and rightly. In my own. Kntraxce down to Farmhouse from Road.
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