They had drawn diagrams to show the domestic plumbing system at school in Housecraft.
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Housecraft is a furniture arrangement app from Sirvo, the studio behind the perfect puzzle game Threes.
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Luckily, we have Housecraft, an augmented-reality app that also lets you adorn your room with virtual furniture by looking through your phone's camera.
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Wayfair also recently added augmented reality features to its mobile shopping app; vintage and secondhand furniture marketplace Chairish did this as well, as did Housecraft; and IKEA just last month was among the first to adopt Apple's new ARKit technology to add AR to its app.
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In 1932, the Association made a small scale-model of an electrical working-class kitchen at an exhibition at Central Hall, Westminster, sponsored by the voluntary Housing Societies of London. Among its other projects were the 1934 report Electricity in the Working-Class Home, the 1935 all-electric house in Bristol, the 1936 film Motion Study in the Home and the Electrical Housecraft School, run by Dorothy Vaughan, which opened in 1933. The EAW published recipe books, ran courses on Electricity for Everyday Living and developed an Electrical Housecraft Certificate and diploma course. In the 1950s and 60s, they produced series of tea towels, pinnies and dusters to inform women about electrical safety.
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Spencer was born in Yorkshire in 1938 and educated at Newland School for Girls and the Yorkshire College of Housecraft. Upon graduation in 1959, she was involved in the management of school dinner services in the county. She learned Italian and applied to BOAC to become a stewardess. However, she did not pass the interview stage.
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She created secretarial, housecraft and teacher training departments for both secondary and third level qualifications. During her career she was involved in the various appropriate organisations. She was president of the International Federation of University Women in Ireland from 1925 to 1929. She was also involved with the Irish Schoolmistresses Association and a member of the Irish Registration Council from 1915 to 1930.
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The largest extension – designed by architects Messr Richard Sheppard, Robson and Partners of London - saw all classrooms moved to the first and second floors, with the open-plan student areas on the ground floor, opening up to the playing fields. New facilities within the extension included: science laboratories; needlework and housecraft rooms; and geography classrooms with a terrace that linked them to the observatory on the roof.
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Gwendolyn Moreen Peters was born on 3 October 1923 in Seatons Village, on the Island of Antigua in the Eastern Caribbean nation of Antigua and Barbuda. She attended her basic educational studies in Antigua and trained under Caribbean pupil- teacher program to enable her to become a teacher. She went on to study pedagogy at the Housecraft Centre in Barbados and took further studies at the University of Puerto Rico.
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Brydon was for many years the honorary treasurer for the Standing Committee of the Women's College, within the University of Queensland, and she was also a member of the committee of the Brisbane School of Arts from 1911 to 1927. During the early part of this year she devoted much time and thought to the equipment and maintenance of the Housecraft Training School for unemployed girls on Gregory Terrace.
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By 1930, there was a 'housecraft centre' near the school and a large garden for the pupils to work in. In 1936, a new block was added to the Heathcote House section to form a Handicraft Centre and Science Laboratory. The school continued to expand and in 1937 a kitchen and canteen were opened to provide hot dinners for the children. Early in the Second World War, the school's buildings were converted into a reception and dispersal centre for evacuees.
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The result was the Blackheath and Kidbrooke National Church of England School, built on a site adjoining the old school in Old Dover Road. The school became a secondary mixed school. In 1945 the London County Council felt that the Greenwich Girls' Blue Coat School, which by then was a technical school providing tuition in housecraft, catering and needlework to 60 girls aged 14–16, was too small. In 1959 the school amalgamated with the Blackheath and Kidbrooke School to form the Blackheath & Bluecoat School.
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In 1919, the government pledged HM Treasury money for "housecraft" training, and gave the CCWTE £50,000 to help with other training. In 1920, the Central Committee on Women's Employment became a standing committee in the House of Commons. Courses that trained women in midwifery, hairdressing, massage, teaching, as well as domestic work, ended in 1922 when funding ran out. Using funding from the Empire Settlement Act 1922, the CCWTE set up a home training centre in Market Harborough, and later set up home training centres in Glasgow, Harrogate, Newcastle, Leamington Spa, and London.
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In 1921, Itchen Pupil Teacher's Centre became Itchen Coeducational Secondary School, moving into temporary huts on the current Middle Road site. The foundation stone for the present building in Middle Road was laid in December 1925, but the school wasn't finished until 1938. The temporary buildings consisted of: a science laboratory; a workshop for woodwork and metalwork; a housecraft room; an assembly room that doubled as art and physics rooms; two staff rooms; and a Headmaster's room. The school had to keep using four rooms at the Porchester Road School, as the temporary buildings at Middle Road couldn't accommodate the large number of pupils.
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The building subsequently found a new use as a hotel for the next seventy years; this featured a Winter Gardens with sprung dance-floor, raised bandstand, and a 3-span roof supported by decorative arched cast-iron trusses built on top of the terrace. The impact of two world wars saw the hotel's closure. The local authority took over the building and opened the Ilkley College of Housecraft in 1952, with parts of the grounds being developed to provide additional accommodation for the college over following years. Known as the "pud school", the institution became Ilkley College of Education and then merged with Bradford College to form Bradford and Ilkley College.
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Rose was evacuated to the United States, and her school in Seattle provided a home-economics course; it was this experience that started her on the way to a career in cooking and food writing. On her return to Britain, she declined the offer of a university place to study psychology, and attended the Manchester College of Housecraft, where she specialised in demonstration techniques. Her television work started in the 1950s, when she wrote to the BBC suggesting a course in Jewish cookery and she later became the resident cook for Granada Television in the 1970s. Rose was the first woman commissioner at the Meat and Livestock Commission, and was made an MBE in 1989.
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The school originally provided five and six year courses in a variety of subjects. The first three years a general course was taken to provide a good foundation. From the fourth year three courses were available. The Academic: leading to the General Certificate of Education examination; The Commercial, including general clerical work, shorthand and typing, all leading to the relevant public examinations; and Technical leading to public examinations involving Housecraft, needle trades, pre-nursing, woodwork and metalwork. Outside of the academic the school had a number of societies and of particular pride were the choral and orchestral music, drama and dancing activities, a trend that continues today in the school’s designation as a Specialist in Performing and Visual Arts.
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Chaired by Lady Astor, the first woman MP to take her seat in the House of Commons, its speakers and attendee list represented key figures in the suffrage and women's rights movements in Britain and abroad, including Millicent Fawcett, Viscountess Rhondda, Kerstin Hesselgren the first woman elected to Upper House of the Swedish parliament and American engineer Ethel H. Bailey. In 1924, members of WES, including Caroline Haslett, Margaret Moir and Margaret Partridge founded the Electrical Association for Women. This association aimed to educate women about electricity, providing courses in Electrical Housecraft and demonstrations at electrical showrooms. It published The Electrical Handbook for Women, a guide to electricity, which was re-issued (though with different names) until 1983.
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