Re:Blackened Buildings of Manchester Before the Clean Air Act
by toyg on Friday August 31, 2018 @04:39AM
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Believe me, they’re much better clean. The limestone ones, when the sun shines “just so”, seem to be made of gold - which is probably on purpose, considering when they were built Manchester was the centre of the world, richer than London or most other places on Earth.
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Re:Blackened Buildings of Manchester Before the Clean Air Act
by willyt on Friday August 31, 2018 @05:35AM
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Better architects of the period understood the effects of soot and played to them. Because houses were heated with coal it was a problem even before the industrial revolution. As such, some architectural historians believe that buildings shouldn’t be cleaned for that reason.