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Former woollen weavers' cottages in Wardle, Greater Manchester, England.. A weavers' cottage was (and to an extent still is) a type of house used by weavers for cloth production in the putting-out system sometimes known as the domestic system.
Wooden and iron altar rails in St Pancras Church, Ipswich. The altar rail (also known as a communion rail or chancel rail) is a low barrier, sometimes ornate and usually made of stone, wood or metal in some combination, delimiting the chancel or the sanctuary and altar in a church, [1] [2] from the nave and other parts that contain the congregation.
On wide staircases, there can be one or more railings between the two sides. The term "banister" is sometimes used to mean just the handrail, sometimes the handrail and the balusters, or sometimes just the balusters. [9] Volute: A handrail end element for the bullnose step that curves inward like a spiral. A volute is said to be right or left ...
A timber bridge or wooden bridge is a bridge that uses timber or wood as its principal structural material. One of the first forms of bridge, those of timber have been used since ancient times. Wooden bridges could be a deck-only structure or a deck with a roof. Wooden bridges were often a single span, but could be of multiple spans.
President Joe Biden said the U.S. government should foot the bill for repairs. Recovering any of those funds from the owner of the Dali may prove more challenging.
The bridge originally had seven wrought-iron spans and two shorter wooden spans; [3] the longer spans were each [14] 105 feet (32 m) in length. [13] The bridge cost $250,000 to build, [15] and followed a Post truss design. [1] Roughly 1,000 short tons (910 t) of iron and 420,000 board feet (990 m 3) of timber went into its construction. At the ...
Wattle and daub is a composite building method used for making walls and buildings, in which a woven lattice of wooden strips called "wattle" is "daubed" with a sticky material usually made of some combination of wet soil, clay, sand, and straw. Wattle and daub has been used for at least 6,000 years and is still an important construction method ...
A handrail is a rail that is designed to be grasped by the hand so as to provide safety or support. [1] In Britain , handrails are referred to as banisters . Handrails are commonly used while ascending or descending stairways and escalators in order to prevent injurious falls, and to provide bodily support in bathrooms or similar areas.