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Modern housing in town and country : illustrated by examples of municipal and other schemes of block dwellings, tenement houses, model cottages and villages, also plans and descriptions of the cheap cottage exhibition (1905)

Cornes, James · London : B.T. Batsford · leaf 93

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den village.” The reason for this insistence on the plentiful supply of “ Mother earth ” around the cottages at Bournville can best be given in Mr. Cadbury’s own words. “ I know the Birmingham housing question by visiting men in their houses in the city, and I have had the great privilege of… … PLANS. can yon expect but a poor emaciated creature without physical or moral strength ? Some of the Rent, 6s. 6 d. per week inclusive. well-to-do people around here complain that we are spoiling the country — perhaps there are fifty of them altogether. We may have spoilt it for them, but we shall…

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