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• The Guardian view on working-class heritage: smokehouses, smithies and so much more | Editorial

  26-11-2023 18:00
  History is not just about castles and palaces. Welcome changes in priorities are ramping up the value placed on an industrial pastThe sight of smoke billowing from the roof of a listed building would usually bring fire engines blue-lighting in from miles around, but in the Northumberland village of Craster it is a sign of business as usual. Four generations of the Robson family have smoked kippers in a lowly stone building that was given a Grade II listing last week.The listing is a tribute to a
  
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• From Spanish mission extravaganzas to art deco curves: other people’s homes – in pictures

  26-11-2023 00:00
  
  Sandy Weir’s delightful Instagram account, full of architectural treasures combined with cheeky captions, has been turned into a new book. With styles ranging across mid-century, art deco and the occasional turret, Other People’s Homes offers us a new perspective on houses that you could simply walk past without taking a second look. It will be available from 28 NovemberFrom a 30sqm house to a slice of urban parkland: Australia’s most sustainable homes of 2023 – in pictur
  
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