Interesting about the overhang being due to taxation laws. I could swear they told us in school that it was because people often thew their dirty water out of s

Interesting about the overhang being due to taxation laws. I could swear they told us in school that it was because people often thew their dirty water out of second storey windows, and this way it could go straight into the gutter in the middle of the street where no one walked.