This week's program Up Your Street takes you to Harrogate, a small town in Yorkshire. Harrogate became a fashionable resort during Victorian times, when people came to take a bath in the mineral waters.
这次《Up Your Street》节目将带你去哈罗盖特,约克郡一个小城镇。哈罗盖特在维多利亚时期是时髦旅游地,那时人们来此在矿物水中泡温泉。
Victorian parents believed that they kept their dignity by retreating behind an unreasoning authoritarian attitude in fact they did nothing of the kind, but children were then too cowed to let them know how they really felt.
“Nature gave us lips to conceal our teeth, ” ran one popular Victorian maxim, alluding to the fact that before the birth of proper dentistry, mouths were often in a shocking state of hygiene.
A grand Victorian narrow home might even support a rooftop belvedere, or cupola with little windows, creating a chimney effect that led hot air escape skyward.
Harvard Memorial Hall, erected in honor of Harvard graduates who fought for the Union in the American Civil War, is an imposing building in High Victorian Gothic style on Harvard campus.
It is said that popular home decorating personalities tend to fall into five categories: classic traditional, casual easy living, modern contemporary, Victorian or American country.