Rising Damp (film) than either Rigsby or her. Philip (Don Warrington) is not especially interested in Ruth, but he eggs Rigsby on in order to humiliate him. In adapting the television series to film, the setting was changed from Yorkshire to inner-city London. For her performance as Ruth Jones, Frances da la Tour received an Evening Standard British Film Award in the category of "Best Actress". A reviewer for "Time Out" wrote that the film "[demonstrates] that moderately droll TV boarding-house sitcoms ought not to be stretched to 98 minutes." David Parkinson wrote in the "Radio Times", "the absence of Richard Beckinsale does
Damp (structural) damp is widely referred to in Victorian literature and the Public Health Act of 1875 introduced the requirement for a damp-proof course in walls to prevent rising damp. An entry in the "British Medical Journal" from 1872 describes the phenomenon of rising damp as follows: In July 1860 it was reported in "The Engineer" that The architect and social reformer, Thomas Worthington, described rising damp in his 1892 essay, "The Dwellings of the Poor: And Weekly Wage-Earners in and Around Towns": In his publication, "Helps to Health" (1885), the financier and philanthropist, Henry Burdett, explains the need for an effective