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Imagine all the time we could have saved on this thread discussing its construction type if we’d know this.
Not really. 1930s-50s were pretty variable across diff types of construction, brick could be solid or cavity at any point in that time. Tech was changing but not consistently (wars had something to do with that).
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I don't particularly want to be that guy wearing a mask in a room full of people not wearing them
It depends. I'm sometimes the only one on the bus/tube or shop, but who cares, I don't know those people. Usually there are one or two others. On public transport I've found it up and down depending on what's in the news/media week by week.
I've been at a couple of house parties recently where a couple of other people have been fully masked (probably a step up from N95), no eating/drinking indoors etc. But if that's what they need to be able to do a bit of socialising then who am I or anyone else to disparage that.
I no longer habitually mask for work or leisure. I've noticed that a few people now mask if they've got a cold, frankly I wish more of my colleagues would rather than openly coughing/sneezing etc.
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You want a certified Retrofit Coordinator. It's complicated even for a standard home, and a retrofit coordinator will give you advice on how it all goes together, phasing and impacts etc, which someone very good at one aspect might not be able to.
Also check out SELCE/ Future Fit Homes - did some very good webinars over the last couple years which are available online, a few retrofit house case studies and a few more about the principles of.
https://www.futurefithomes.org/blog - the Harry Paticas one from 28 Jan 2021 is excellent.
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I actually like the Station the best.
When I've dropped in to the Brockley Brewery taproom somehow I find the clientele annoying. Like a garden party or one day festival everyone seems entirely too self-congratulatory. Loads of kids running around entertaining themselves in the next door carparks. Not quite my vibe.
Park Fever is a bit niche and snooty.
Drink at Bob's is ok but quite small - it's in second place to the station.
Further afield I quite like the Fox and Firkin, I don't like Ninth Life, I haven't tried the relocated Catford Constitutional, I do like the Bellingham Fellowship, further still the Perry Hill pub and Blythe Hill Tavern are both good.
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If anyone has become interested in pathogen genome sequencing since covid made us all armchair epidemiologists, here's a new (free) MOOC
https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/pathogen-genomics-a-new-era-in-global-health-surveillance-and-strategy/1
where's that?