Single Aspect Blog

I used to have a page here www.singleaspect.org.uk/?p=8

At some point during the several blog failures and restarts it was changed without my noticing

to here http://www.singleaspect.org.uk/?p=21425

So if you are looking for my page on single aspect flat from

February 9th, 2010

it’s here -> http://www.singleaspect.org.uk/?p=21425

Sorry for the confusion.

David Shukman BBC One news 10pm July 26th 2018

“This new assisted living centre in East London is designed to protect elderly people from the heat. I went to see one of the flats inside, they’re designed to be cool. Jill and Morris Matthews explained that they have windows on both sides of the building so a breeze can flow through”.

Perhaps the BBC can be persuaded to take an interest in Woods House Pimlico for the benefit of its residents.

#ukhousing #towerblocks After #Grenfell circulate only hot water in tower blocks not gas. For cooking replace gas with induction hobs.

— Otaniemi (@Otaneimi) December 3, 2017

This is not expensive.

https://www.currys.co.uk/gbuk/household-appliances/cooking/hobs/logik-lindhob16-electric-induction-hob-black-10143242-pdt.html

Near the Stags Head I met a man who had moved to London in the early 1970s, having worked as a domestic appliance service engineer in and around the old Byker and got to know it all intimately.

Then he returned to find only the Stags Head and the church down the road standing, he was on his way to the pub with a friend when I ran into him.

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This is not an article, I don’t have time to write one. I enjoyed my walk around Heaton and above is the planning map of C19th housing, much of which I saw.

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I was planning to write this up and perhaps one day I will. But the closer I look the more the subject grows and the less I actually know about the district. You can see my walk above and I met some interesting people but life is taking over and this will have to wait. Likewise Byker. So I’ll leave these notes here for anybody else planning to go.

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Click image link – I am Flamingo Wader

Click link for Hatherley Jacobin article.

For clarity I am not opposing the views of the London Fire Brigade that sprinklers save lives, and indeed I would not dream of disagreeing with that simple fact, but in this specific case of concrete high rise tower blocks built to contain a fire inside one flat then sprinklers are not required in my opinion. Once the occupants are outside the flat and have closed the front door the fire will be contained.

Conclusion

For safety in a tower block circulate hot water from a ground floor boiler room – not gas to individual boilers.

My walking route from Sainsburys High Heaton. Yellow pins points of interest, many missed though later research found them.

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Faulkner, Beacock and Jones (<£10 on Amazon)

A building list in the order in which they appear in the book –  with notes from Pevsner Northumberland when found.

“Jesmond was no more than a village up to the middle of the C19th when it became the residential suburb for the wealthiest inhabitants. The monuments reflect both these aspects.” p254/5 [1]

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