James Palace and her bedroom
in the Queen's Hose in Greenwich. All over London and the country
he and his pupils built many classical buildings, including
houses, churches, stables, lodgings, out-buildings, staircases,
galleries, watergates, and archways. They stood in stark contrast
to the Tudor buildings around them. In the 1632, Jones started
town-planning in London with Covent Garden fruit and vegetable
market with terraced houses around a central piazza surrounded by
open arcades with a Tuscan church at one end. In 1634, a man from
the suburb of Hackney introduced a line of coaches rented at 1s.
per hour. They soon became very popular.
A large part of England was rebuilt as yeomen expanded their
houses and others lower in rank replaced mud and wood hovels with
brick and stone cottages. A separate kitchen appeared. The ground
floors are boarded over to create bedrooms. Permanent stairs
replace ladders. Glass appears in windows. Glass and crockery
replace wood and pewter, Chairs replace benches. Knives and forks
become common.
About 1640 began travel between towns by covered wagons called
stage coaches. They carried passengers and goods and stopped at
inns for stabling and repairs.
Work was begun in 1630 to make canals that would make waters run
to the sea. Barges on canals were the most efficient mode of
transportation. A barge could carry 50 tons on a canal and only 30
on a river.
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