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2. Chimney sweep - Wikipedia

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   A chimney sweep in Wexford, Ireland in 1850. A chimney sweep is a person who inspects then clears soot and creosote from chimneys. The chimney uses the pressure difference caused by a hot column of gas to create a draught and draw air over the hot coals or wood enabling continued combustion. Chimneys may be straight or contain many changes of ...

3. List of obsolete occupations - Wikipedia

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   Brush maker: A brush maker manufactured brushes, brooms, and mops. [45]: 20–21 [46]: 88–95 Another term for a broom maker was a broomsquire. [47] Mechanisation during the Industrial Revolution eventually made it uneconomic to manufacture brushes and brooms outside of a factory. [48] The vacuum cleaner also provided competition. [49] Tech-35 ...

4. Luzula campestris - Wikipedia

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   Luzula campestris, commonly known as field wood-rush or Good Friday grass is a flowering plant in the rush family Juncaceae. [1] It is also one of the plants known as chimney sweeps [2] or sweep's broom [3] because of the brush-like appearance of their flowers. [4]

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6. Ransom Gillis House - Wikipedia

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   The Ransom Gillis House is a historic home located at 205 Alfred Street (formerly 63 Alfred prior to renumbering) [1] in Midtown Detroit, Michigan, within the Brush Park district. It was designed by Henry T. Brush and George D. Mason and built between 1876 and 1878. The structure, unoccupied since the mid-1960s, was "mothballed" by the City of ...

7. Staverton Mill - Wikipedia

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   The 19th-century mill chimney was replaced in 1913 when the boiler house was modernised. The new chimney was built in brick by the German firm Alphons Custodis, was 172 feet high with a 6 ft 6in diameter, and cost £1,056 to construct. There was a cast-iron water tank built by Dortmund around the chimney, halfway up its height.