The weight of lead needed for the sash windows ?
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The view through the gap in the bridge at Tintagel, Cornwall.
Do you remember your parents’ or grandparents’ seasonal “swapping of the screens and storms”?
Does your old house still have round numbering tacks on the exterior window sills?
Those small metal tacks are intended to help keep track of screens, storm windows, and doors — screen or storm window #1 matches the sill numbered 1, etc. — as no single old house window is identical in size to the other.
Vintage tacks are often made of copper-plated metal, rustproof “white brass” alloy (zinc?) or brass with raised numbers to remain visible once painted and were sold in cards of 25, and numbered 1-25 or 26-50 (each window required three tacks: one tack for the frame/sill, and identical numbers for both the screen and storm sashes).
https://oldhousearchaeology.wordpress.com/2015/08/19/numbered-window-screen-tacks/
Does your old house still have round numbering tacks on the exterior window sills?
Those small metal tacks are intended to help keep track of screens, storm windows, and doors — screen or storm window #1 matches the sill numbered 1, etc. — as no single old house window is identical in size to the other.
Vintage tacks are often made of copper-plated metal, rustproof “white brass” alloy (zinc?) or brass with raised numbers to remain visible once painted and were sold in cards of 25, and numbered 1-25 or 26-50 (each window required three tacks: one tack for the frame/sill, and identical numbers for both the screen and storm sashes).
https://oldhousearchaeology.wordpress.com/2015/08/19/numbered-window-screen-tacks/
Some of their steaks feel like they have if you try to cut through themI dont think Ye old wetherspoons pubs were around in 1887
Cheers Tom
The amount of fuss over the building of that bridge, unbelievable!
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Window tax
Counting wasn't invented when they did window tax.
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Sorry chippy I had had a beer
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Would it have had anything to do with window tax
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So it is window tax then
Only if you spell it window Tacks
Do you remember your parents’ or grandparents’ seasonal “swapping of the screens and storms”?
Does your old house still have round numbering tacks on the exterior window sills?
Those small metal tacks are intended to help keep track of screens, storm windows, and doors — screen or storm window #1 matches the sill numbered 1, etc. — as no single old house window is identical in size to the other.
Vintage tacks are often made of copper-plated metal, rustproof “white brass” alloy (zinc?) or brass with raised numbers to remain visible once painted and were sold in cards of 25, and numbered 1-25 or 26-50 (each window required three tacks: one tack for the frame/sill, and identical numbers for both the screen and storm sashes).
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Remember back in the day when you were paid weekly in hand (no wages paid into banks back then) my first wage packet was £22 probably gave my mam £2 board, happy days.
Can you remember your first pay packet?
Can you remember your first pay packet?
Yep. I was getting £2 a week pocket money then left school and got a job in a factory on £35 a week. I didn’t know what to do with it all then after a month a friend of mine got me a job working for an oil company on £75 a week. I felt rich!
Great idea, however it will likely burn through the fuel a lot quicker due to pushing more air into the stove.
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