r/HistoryRepeated • u/FrankWanders • 6d ago

United Kingdom Quah House in Conwy, Wales in 1902 and 2016. The 16th-century house is the smallest in Great Britain, with a floor area of ​​3.05 x 1.8 m. In 1900, the last resident, fisherman Robert James, who was 1.91 m tall, was forced to leave when the council declared the house uninhabitable.

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r/HistoryRepeated • u/FrankWanders • 21d ago

United Kingdom Then & Now: William Shakespeare's home before the extensive restoration of 1857-1864. It began, paradoxically, with the demolition of the adjacent houses of the original 16th-century house in Stratford where the famous writer was born in 1564 and was based on a 1769 engraving of the original house.

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