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All this is happening within thirty miles of London. What

of the bigger and older and more characteristic houses remote from Town and the towns ? The cost of keeping them up is too high. The cost of destroying them is too high. - I went over one the other day that boasted a hundred bedrooms and could accommodate nearly as many horses as people. Its owner used a room or two—that and no more. What is to be its fate ? Must it just moulder slowly away, like the houses, say, in Galway, which for economic reasons lost half its old population? Is there really no use at all for these snug rooms and ample stables and coach houses ? Must they just tumble to pieces like the Galway villas and become heaps of stones that no one so much as troubles to cart away or to level ?

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