history houses

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What were victorian houses for poor people like ??	Huge industrial cities like Birmingham had grown up by Victorian times. Houses for the workers were often squashed together around courtyards, and became blackened by coal smuts from the tall factory chimneys. Several homes shared a privy (toilet), a pump or well and wash-house. The privies were emptied by the night soil cart, but they often overflowed and contaminated the water supply. Diseases like cholera and typhoid were very common.
what were they like for the rich ??	Inside a magnificent hall (looking back to the old castle hall) provided the centre for a typical Victorian room lay-out: Morning Room, Drawing Room, Dining Room, Boudoir and Library. Upstairs a number of fine bedrooms led off a Gallery. All the principal rooms display a wealth of decoration - foliage, flowers, animals and birds in wood, stone, plaster and stained glass. The large, high ceilinged rooms were heavily furnished and littered with knick-knacks and ornaments as was the fashion. This Victorian house was built with a bathroom and flushing toilet. Poorer folk had to wait another 50 years or more before these were standard items in their homes!

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