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Road surface

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Sep 13, 2026

speaker_8SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
22:00
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Peter YearsleyNARRATOR
22:25
while above these were other prisons which continued round the back of the chapel next to the prisons were the council chamber and muniment room opposite the chapel were the court-house called the toll-booth compare the toll-booth edinburgh and the toll-house yarmouth and the debtors prison and a maison dieu that is a kind of almshouse the present streets called shambles formerly mangagate footnote french manger finkel street jubbergate petergate and especially shambles little shambles and the passages leading from them help one to realize the appearance of mediaeval streets and ways c buildings dwelling houses ranged from big town residences of noble or distinguished families by way of the beautifully decorated costly houses of the rich middle-class merchants to the humble dwellings of the poorest inhabitants every type of house from the palace to the hovel was well represented the archbishop's palace consisting of hall chapel quadrangle mint and gateway with prison was near the minster beyond the fine thirteenth-century chapel now part of the minster library buildings hardly a trace of this undoubtedly splendid residence is left the percies had a great mansion in walmegate in other parts were the mansions of the scropes and the vavasours it is however the houses of the prosperous traders that are the most interesting for in them we see the kind of house a man built from the results of successful business most houses were of timber those of the more wealthy were of stone and timber the use of half timbering when the face of a building consisted of woodwork and plaster made houses and streets very picturesque the woodwork was often artistically carved each story was made to overhang the one below it so that an umbrella if umbrella had been in use then would have been almost a superfluity if not a needless luxury besides being impossible to manipulate in the narrow streets and ways of a mediaeval city the upper stories of two houses facing each other across a street were often very close usually there were no more than three stories the roofs were very steep and covered generally with tiles but in the case of the smaller dwellings with thatch from a house-top the view across the neighbourhood would be of a huddled medley of red-tiled roofs all broken up with gables and tiny dormer windows there would be no regularity just a jumble of patches of red-tiled roofing The present streets, called Shambles, Pavement, Petergate and Stonegate, contain excellent examples of medieval domestic architecture.
Peter YearsleyNARRATOR
25:10
shops were distinguished by having the front of the ground floor arranged as a show-room warehouse or business room which was open to the street the trader lived at his shop in the case of a butcher's for example the front part of the shutters that covered the unglazed window at night was let down in business hours so that it hung over the footway on it were exhibited the joints of meat butchers slaughter-houses were then as now private premises and right in the heart of the city the rooms in the houses were quite small with low ceilings the small windows whether they were merely fitted with wooden shutters or glazed with many small panes kept together with strips of lead lighted the rooms but poorly the closeness of the houses made internal lighting still less effective the interior walls were of timbering and plaster often white or colour washed footnote wallpaper which still bears the influence of the hangings that it replaced came into general use early in the nineteenth century paneling was used occasionally the ventilation and hygienic conditions generally were far from good as may be imagined from a consideration of the smallness of the houses the compactness of the city particularly the parts occupied by the people and especially of the primitive system of sanitation which was content to use the front street as a main sewer there were of course no drains at most there was a gutter along the middle of a street or at each side of the roadway it was the traditional practice to dump house and workshop refuse into the streets some of it was carried along by rain-water but generally it remained in any case it was noxious and dangerous there was legislation on the subject for the evil was already notorious in the fourteenth century the first parliamentary attempt to restrain people in towns generally from thus corrupting and infecting the air is dated thirteen eighty eight the many visits of distinguished people and public processions always conferred an incidental boon on the city for one of the essentials of preparation was giving the main streets a good cleaning there is no wonder that plagues perpetually harassed the people of mediaeval times and reduced the population miserably the plague never disappeared till towns were largely rebuilt on a more commodious scale in the next great building era which began in sixteen sixty six in london and in the early years of the eighteenth century elsewhere no advance was made in sanitation till the victorian age when town sanitation was completely revolutionised and for the first time efficiently organised the house fire was of wood and peat though coal was also used for artificial lighting oil lamps wicks in oil and candles were used a light was obtained from flint and tinder the latter being ignited by a spark got from striking the flint with a piece of metal rooms were furnished with chairs tables benches chests bedsteads and in some cases tub-shaped baths carpets were to be found only in the houses of the very wealthy the floors of ordinary houses like those of churches were covered with rushes and straw among which it was the useful custom to scatter fragrant herbs this rough carpet was pressed by the clogs of working people and the shoes of the fashionable the spit was a much-used cooking utensil tablecloths knives and spoons were in general use but not the fork before the fifteenth century at one time food was manipulated by the fingers york was advanced in table manners for it is known that a fork was used in the house of a citizen family here in fourteen forty three the richer members of the middle class owned a large number of silver tankards goblets mazer bowls salt-cellars and similar utensils and ornaments of silver for this was the common form in which they held their wealth beer which was largely brewed at home was the general beverage but french and other wines were plentiful the water supply came from wells the water being drawn up by bucket and windlass or from the river when the wells were low the drinking water of the twentieth century city is taken entirely from the river ouse but now the water is carefully treated and purified before reaching the consumer
speaker_9SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
29:30
there were not many inns
Sean RowleyHOST
13:22
Then it goes to Dirt Road.
Sean RowleyHOST
13:24
Then back to Gravel Road or Paved Road.
Sean RowleyHOST
13:28
I get up to Station Wapishka, unloaded my truck, parked my truck.
Sean RowleyHOST
13:33
They're very, very friendly there.
Leonardo WilliamsHOST
34:52
NUMBER 33, ZONING MAP CHANGE 505 WEST CHOPPER HILL STREET.
Leonardo WilliamsHOST
34:56
NUMBER 34, CONFIRMATION OF ASSESSMENT ROLE OF CURB GUTTER AND PAVING ON AMBER PLACE FROM HUMPHREY STREET NORTH TO EAST PEDEGROVE STREET.
Leonardo WilliamsHOST
35:07
NUMBER 35, CONFIRMATION OF ASSESSMENT ROLE FOR RIBBON PAVING ON BRUNSON STREET FROM SOUTH MIAMI BOULEVARD WEST TO THE WEST PROPERTY LINE OF REED, REID 163690.
Leonardo WilliamsHOST
35:22
CONFIRMATION OF ASSESSMENT ROLES OF CURB, GUTTER, PAVING, AND WATER AND SEWER LATERALS ON CHALMERS STREET FROM HEMLOCK AVENUE TO THE NORTH PROPERTY LINE OF REID 133231.
Leonardo WilliamsHOST
35:37
137, CONFIRMATION OF ASSESSMENT ROLES FOR RIBBON, PAVING, WATER, MAIN, and water and sewer laterals on Lane Street from Glencoe Road East to the East property line of Reed, REID 164518.
Leonardo WilliamsHOST
35:51
I don't need to do these.
Carl RistPANELIST
35:57
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