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More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)
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English bond
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Method of laying bricks in which one row or course is made up entirely of bricks with their sides showing (stretchers) and the next of bricks with their ends showing (headers). This was the usual English method up to the 18C, when it was replaced by the Flemish bond (sometimes called Dutch bond), where headers and stretchers alternate within each course. Modern brick houses, with cavity walls, usually have courses entirely of stretchers (known as running bond).
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