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Houses & Housing


see also Architecture - stucco

see also Health and Hygiene - Air & Ventilation

see also Health and Hygiene - Sewers & Sanitation

§ Building Societies

see Finance - Building Societies

§ Heating

— coal economy advice (1) (2)

— fires and grates, how to handle them

— fuel economy advice

— warming pans

§ Homelessness

see also Charities

see also Housing of the Poor - Workhouses, below

— homeless artisans

— sleeping rough

§ Hotels

— Agricultural Hotel

— Avondale

— about Grand Hotels

— Berkeley (Piccadilly)

— Hotel Cecil

— Challis's (Rupert Street)

— character of, 1850s

— Charing Cross Hotel (1) (2)

— City Terminus Hotel

— Claridge's (Brook Street)

— Euston Hotel

— expense of London hotels

— Gerald's Hall Hotel

— The Grand Hotel (Northumberland Avenue)

— Great Northern Hotel

— Great Western Hotel

— Grosvenor Hotel

— Hans Crescent Hotel

— Hotel Continental (Regent Street)

— Hotel de Paris (Leicester Place)

— The Hummums

— Inns of Court Hotel

— list of hotels

— Lane's Hotel

— Langham Hotel

— London Bridge Hotel

— Long's Hotel

— Metropole (1) (2)

— Midland Grand Hotel, St. Pancras

— Palace Hotel

— Savoy Hotel

— Thames Bank Depositary ("The Mechanics' Home for 1851")

— Victoria (1) (2)

— Westminster Palace Hotel

§ Housing Associations

see Housing of the Poor below under individual company names, and entry Model Housing

§ Housing of the Middle Classes and above

see also Publications - Etiquette

— advice to householders

— advice to lodgers (Cassells)

— concept of 'home'

— DIY

— drainage (Cassells)

— drawing room, use for music

— 'The English Home'

— exterior of London houses

— finding a house / house-hunting

— gardening

— gas in the home (Cassells)

— genteel households

— household pests

— housing problems (humour)

— 'income and management'

§ interior design, decoration, furnishing

— aesthetic designs

— aquariums (1) (2)

— back parlour

— bath-rooms

— bedroom furniture

— blinds (1) (2)

— china

— decor, advice on

— description of typical interior (various)

— drawing rooms

— dressing-rooms

— ferns

— 'general furniture of the house'

— 'general remarks'

— legal matters (Mrs. Beeton)

— lodgings and boarding-houses

— a middle class home, at breakfast

— The Mistress of the House

— moving house

— the Nursery

— slops, cleaning out in houses

— upper-class home, plan for (Belgravia)

§ Housing of the Poor

see also Charities

— Alleyn's Alms Houses

— almshouses, list of

— Artizans, Labourers and General Dwellings Company

— Bancroft's Alms Houses

— Dacre's Alms Houses

— family budget

— furnishing and decoration

— ideal home, poor's view of

— landlords

— lodgings

— Metropolitan Association for Improving the Dwellings of the Industrious Classes

— model housing

— model lodgings (incl. Rowton Houses)

— night refuges (1) (2) (3)

— overcrowding (1) (2)

— Peabody Fund

— The Scholar's Handbook of Household Management

— slums

— Society for Improving the Condition of the Labouring Classes

— workhouses

§ Suburbia

— 'The March of Bricks and Mortar'

— 'How London Grows'

— suburban gardens (1) (2)

— suburbs