Re: Re: ‘Dutch Billys’

If there was a twin Billy “tradition”, that is 😉

For interested parties, here are the interior photos of 20 & 21 Thomas Street from the 2006 “mini-Manhattan” planning application for Thomas Street & Crane Street – Ref. 4035/06 – which sought their demolition (it was refused, though not for demolition of these buildings; a subsequent 2007 planning application – Ref. 5666/07 – also sought their demolition, but this lapsed as there was no response to an AI request within the required period). Note the freshly ripped out barley-sugar stair balusters in No. 20 in the second group of pictures below. Wouldn’t want anybody to be getting ideas about the value of these buildings, would we? Original staircase in No. 21 possibly still remaining but covered in sheet timber:

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