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Now, before I start commenting on these images, let me state that ALL of these images we're taken by Lily and Sarah, as while I, Dominique, and Gerome went to the zoo, they went to Rochester. Why? Rochester still has VERY similar building geometry and floors, and walls from around the 1400 hundreds. Which means, generally buildings there are going to be quite similar to the sort of style we should convey.

Wall supports / deco.

Decoration. These seemingly random bits of decoration used to be heads. Statue heads mind you, but heads nontheless. Obviously replaced.

Floor patterns from that era too, apparently (confirmed) some places in London still have these floors. A really nice brick texture.

Windows! Either a standard 4 panel split, or crosshatch windows were generally the most used windows during that point in time. Again, a great piece of knowledge we can use to create our windows.
Brick tex-trusion. Yes that's a made up word. Anyway, this decoration is totally useless, serves no function. There purely for decorative purposes.

Greater example of the irregular built floors, a common build design from houses / designs from the era.

History suggests (confirmed) that particular streets of that era were actually so close that you could virtually shake your neighbours hands, straight from the comfort of your own window. This is also a very important factor as the street that we're going to replicate is similar to this in size.

Great texture for us to replicate. I don't think i'll do one quite as extruded as this, but generally that's the idea.

Lovely stone wall.

Drainage. - Unfortunately, research suggests that drainage did not exist in the era we're going to replicate. Instead, they just had (few houses) paths to the street in which waste could be poured down. SOOO sanitary.
This is also quite an important picture, as it shows the condition of a seemingly old house. Purely by reference in which we can use this to our advantage.




Church. Purely for reference if we actually do decide to model a church.
Another example of the extrusions on the houses. You can pretty much see it on every house in this example. Also notice that almost all of these houses have border ledges.

And the street. Now. Obviously the pavement has been reworked, many times over. But in terms of the detail of the brick, it was quite similar to how it would of been. Uneven shaped bricks, placed together with moderate effort to create a seemingly level ground, although, totally uneven. This is the basis of which I'm going to use to create the floor.

Another example of an extruding house from the front.

Here upwards photographs taken by both Lily and Sarah. As stated before, this is just another example of a currently existing house in rochester, showing the extrusions.

Like the houses in rochester (taken by lily and sarah) The main thing to note about these buildings is that they all have floors protruding from the first. So, coming out of the map, being unbalanced.

Another interesting image showing the layout of a house. Notice the extrusions on the base model as the stories pile up? This is common, and pretty much shown on almost every single house in that era that has more than one story. Usually extruding from the front, but some houses actually extrude from all sides and are lined up against another house, or wall, or between two houses.

Interior of a house of a similar era. Just showing the layout of what the average house would be like. This was more later, though, and for rich people. Unfortunately, during the era we're doing and in London, pretty much only poor people lived there at that time. Very unhygienic poor people at that. A breeding ground for disease and ailments.

The little villager there standing next to the house actually made me lol quite a bit.

This is probably the most important image amongst all the images here. It SPECIFICALLY shows what houses in the 1350s-1750's looked like. All houses made during this period and after for a couple hundred years were based on this design.

Archway - Door. Patterns from that particular era. I don't know if we're actually going to have any archways in our project, but if we do, we know what to base it off. Wood. The pattern on the wood has been recurring quite often amongst other designs that I've reviewed earlier. Decorative plaques and so forth.

Another chest. Taken by Oly again. Decorative purposes. Same as the other chests I've commented on.
Again, more clothing from this era. Just shows the sort of clothing average citizens would wear on the streets during that time. This set is specifically described as a medium-low class workers outfit. In terms of relevance, if we decide to go ahead with the whole character showing in our project, then it means that we can use inspiration from this to design our characters.

Bucket. Water bucket. Bucket bucket. We're going to have props like these so it was quite handy that there we're images like these in the London Museum.

Following pictures taken by Oly Walters.

So, whilst I went to the zoo with Gerome, Oly and Dominique, Lily and Sarah went too.... Rochester! Why? You'll soon find out. Later on during the day Oly went to the London museum, to gather more information / Research.