Hints to househunters and householders / by Ernest Turner.

  • Turner, Ernest.
Date:
1884
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Hints to househunters and householders / by Ernest Turner. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    point to which a new settler in honeycombed London will do well to look rather carefully. Places of public amusement too may be shunned with advantage, as also public-houses. And though, in the older parts of London, it is difficult altogether to escape the neighbourhood of that very objectionable neighbour, a mews, it is highly desirable to ascertain that the particular example of that class with which our proposed neighbourhood is afflicted is not the haunt of a proprietor of night cabs. A sewer flap in the pavement opposite your front door or window may, when opened—as it is sure to be pretty often—be a great source of nuisance; nor is it advisable to select a house op- posite one of those innocent-looking little oblong holes in the roadway by which the sewers are ventilated. To some people the sound of bells from a neighbouring church or chapel is very objection- able. Should it be summer-time when you are viewing a proposed residence, try to realise what its ap- pearance will be in the winter, and vice versd. For the more general conditions of climate, &c., the only safe plan is to take special information. And let that information be of a strictly practical character. There are very few matters in which theory and fact are at wider variance than this matter of climate. And distance is hardly an element in the calculation. The widest differences