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Grifter:
--- Quote from: morriswalters on July 28, 2020, 01:27:43 AM ---Originally they may have been middle class. You seemed to have never lived in a shotgun house, which are quite common, at least in Louisville although they are found in Chicago. The house may be no wider then 12 feet, with setbacks that would make the lots about 17 feet wide. I lived in houses which were separated by no more than than the walk that ran between the houses. Variations on a theme, camel back, three or four rooms down and one up.
A regulation basketball court is 94 feet long and 50 feet wide. Look at 3552 Winchester Ave in Chicago on street view, this is how I picture Harry's house.
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Doesn't look like a traditional wood boarding house.
morriswalters:
Close enough for government work. And if you don't like this one almost every house on the block has a street higher than the bottom floor and the same for the next street over. I've never seen anything like it. I just love street view.
SpacedCowboy:
--- Quote from: Bad Alias on July 28, 2020, 03:25:13 AM ---West Derby Castle is more like 120 yards from end to end.
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No-one actually knows how big West Derby Castle was, all records of its plans have been lost over the last almost a thousand years. We do know that when it was in use ~150 soldiers were quartered there, we know where the main motte was centered (there’s a monument), and it’s about 900 feet from there to “Castlegate Grove” and “The Armoury” as the crow flies. 400 yards (1200 ft) seemed about reasonable on that basis (there’s the other side of the motte, after all).
Whether there’s any historical accuracy in the road naming is up for debate of course. It was a motte and bailey castle, so it’s going to be of a reasonable size, just because the bailey part is separate from the motte. It was described as “dominating the landscape for miles around”, which also lends itself to the thing being reasonably big.
There were around 600 of these motte and bailey castles dotted around the UK, mainly as point-to-point contact and troops barracks. Liverpool also had another castle (a stone one) down by the river for coastal defence.
My point, castle-size notwithstanding, is that it’s not going to be a “real” castle, it’ll be one of those towers-that-someone-called-a-castle-because-it-sounds-better. There was a strange inversion in naming when real actual castles were named towers (eg: the Tower of London), leading to actual towers being then named castles as the meaning of the word was confused. Etymology is odd.
Conspiracy Theorist:
Etymology is indeed odd, there are some really weird insects out there.
Mira:
--- Quote from: morriswalters on July 28, 2020, 01:27:43 AM ---Originally they may have been middle class. You seemed to have never lived in a shotgun house, which are quite common, at least in Louisville although they are found in Chicago. The house may be no wider then 12 feet, with setbacks that would make the lots about 17 feet wide. I lived in houses which were separated by no more than than the walk that ran between the houses. Variations on a theme, camel back, three or four rooms down and one up.
A regulation basketball court is 94 feet long and 50 feet wide. Look at 3552 Winchester Ave in Chicago on street view, this is how I picture Harry's house.
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I know all about shotgun houses, I also grew up in the Bay Area, in San Francisco many house share a wall or are so close together they may as well, basement, then up two or even three floors.
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