. Vanishing England . •--J;-^:-:::;-.:-. \° St. Marys Church, Maldon the best of its kind, and exhibiting almost all its originalironwork, including the chimerical decorative clamp. The ancient house exhibited at the Franco-BritishExhibition at Shepherds Bush was a typical exampleof an Elizabethan dwelling. It was brought from Ipswich,where it was doomed to make room for the extension ofCo-operative Stores, but so firmly was it built that, in spite IN STREETS AND LANES 105 of its age of three hundred and fifty years, it defied forsome time the attacks of the house-breakers. It was builtin 1563
. Vanishing England . •--J;-^:-:::;-.:-. \° St. Marys Church, Maldon the best of its kind, and exhibiting almost all its originalironwork, including the chimerical decorative clamp. The ancient house exhibited at the Franco-BritishExhibition at Shepherds Bush was a typical exampleof an Elizabethan dwelling. It was brought from Ipswich,where it was doomed to make room for the extension ofCo-operative Stores, but so firmly was it built that, in spite IN STREETS AND LANES 105 of its age of three hundred and fifty years, it defied forsome time the attacks of the house-breakers. It was builtin 1563, as the date carved on the solid lintel shows, butsome parts of the structure may have been earlier. Allthe oak joists and rafters had been securely mortised intoeach other and fixed with stout wooden pins. So securelywere these pins fixed, that after many vain attempts toknock them out, they had all to be bored out with mortises and tenons were found to be as sound andclean as on the day when they were
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