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It weighed two hundred tons and cost six pence a pound. [2] The total cost was £11,202 [2] which was a fortune then. No further railings are known to have been cast in the Weald. [4] Other early uses of cast iron railings were at Cambridge Senate House and at St Martin-in-the-Fields, London. [2] Wrought iron may be used
English: Glazed white brick by John Carr & Sons, used as facing bricks in Percy, Warkworth and Alnwick Avenues, Whitley Bay, terraces built 1900 on land sold by the Northumberland Estate. Date 26 April 2018, 15:20:52
An Accrington brick Houses on Fredrick Street, Werneth, Oldham built from Accrington bricks. Accrington bricks, or Nori, [1] are a type of iron-hard engineering brick, produced in Altham near Accrington, Lancashire, England from 1887 to 2008 and again from 2015. [2]
That said, between the 1950s and 1970s, around 140 white brick apartments were built in the city, defining a lot of its post-war character. [2] Since 2008, white brick buildings became recognized as an important element in New York, with the requirement of the first landmark restoration of such as building: the 1960 co-op at 900 Fifth Avenue. [1]
Cast iron was not useful for items in tension like beams, where the more expensive wrought iron was preferred. Improvements in production saw the costs decrease at the same time as cast iron gained popularity. The puddling process, patented in 1784, was a relatively low cost method for producing a structural grade wrought iron.
One popular style is the star anchor, an anchor plate cast or wrought in the shape of a five-pointed star. Other names and styles of anchor plate include earthquake washer, triangular washer, S-iron, and T-head. [2] In the United Kingdom, pattress plate is the term for circular restraints, [3] tie bar being an alternative term for rectangular ...
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Bacon's Castle is a rare example of American Jacobean architecture and the only surviving "high-style" house from the 17th century. [10] [11] It is one of only three surviving Jacobean great houses west of the Atlantic—the other two are in Barbados. They are Drax Hall Estate and the Great House at St. Nicholas Abbey Plantation.