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A visit to the Birmingham Back to Backs from the National Trust.
We had a guided tour in the morning.
The guided tour lasted well over an hour and a half (or longer). In a group of ten. There was other groups on tours as well. Best to book tickets in advance. National Trust members go free on their membership cards.
The Birmingham Back to Backs (also known as Court 15) are the city's last surviving court of back-to-back houses. They are preserved as examples of the thousands of similar houses that were built around shared courtyards, for the rapidly increasing population of Britain's expanding industrial towns. They are a very particular sort of British terraced housing. This sort of housing was deemed unsatisfactory, and the passage of the Public Health Act 1875 meant that no more were built; instead byelaw terraced houses took their place. This court, at 50–54 Inge Street and 55–63 Hurst Street, is now operated as a historic house museum by the National Trust.
Recreation of a house in the 1840's, when the Levy's lived there (a Jewish family).
Bedroom - parents shared with daughter
SHANGHAI, CHINA - OCTOBER 23: The Lion capital of Ashoka is a sculpture of four "Indian lions" standing back to back.
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It cant be argued that these streets are dark and dingy. Infact its the opposite. Many house occupiers were enjoying the sun in the street on the day this image was taken.
Promotional portrait for the new hit TV show, based on the bestselling book series: Dame of Gnomes: "A Thong of Fire & Ice"
On the left: Olympus OM-D/E-M5 & Lumix/Leica DG Macro-Elmarit 45mm 1:2.8
On the right: Canon 60D & EF 50mm 1:1.4
It would've been a more accurate comparison if I had the M.Zuiko 45mm f/1.8 on the OM-D, but that's one lens I don't have.
No trip to Cross Green can be complete without a visit to Mr Singh's Corner Shop!
He's still here after 20 years.
He has informed me though that clearance deadline is roughly by end of this year
View south across the Marleys, Beeston, Leeds.
These back to back houses were built between 1896 and 1908 by Joseph Pullan and Sons. From the far left Marley Place, Marley View, Marley Grove and Marley Terrace. In the distance further terraced streets towards Dewsbury Road and beyond the John Charles Centre for Sports and Middleton Woods. On the far horizon are the cooling towers of Ferrybridge power station (best seen on the original)
The houses on the far right are blind back to backs. That is they have a blank wall on one side rather than another house. Just out of shot to the right behind Marley Terrace are the offices of Joseph Pullan and Sons in business since 1875.
Sadly no one had washing hung across the street today. That would have made it a true vision of Yorkshire ;-)
Photographed by a camera lifted by a kite. View Large On Black
This image features in A Different Perspective by Martin Roe
First time travelling back into Birmingham City Centre for about 3 or 4 months with my camera.
Got the train to the Jewellery Quarter, before a walk around and the train home from Birmingham Moor Street.
View of the Back to Backs on Hurst Street. I have never booked to go inside of it.
Was so quiet around here.
No 63 The National Trust.
No 61 Back to Backs.
No 59 Eliza Wheeler.
No 57 George Saunders.
No 55 Candies Sweets.
S303-S313 prepare to depart back to Melbourne with 8398 Steamrail "Spirit of Progress" special - 9/3/2013
Inside the courtyard of the National Trust's Birmingham Back to Backs.
The back-to-backs are all that remains of the common Victorian buildings which housed workers and their families for more than a century.
Built when the city's industrial boom led to chronic overcrowding in the city, houses one room deep and up to three storeys tall housed whole families, built around a single courtyard where they all shared bathrooms and washing facilities.
Construction of the houses was banned by Birmingham City Council in the 1870s, but people lived in them for more than a century thereafter.
The majority were bulldozed in the 1970s, but one small cluster – Court 15 Inge Street – survives under the care of the National Trust, who provide tours inside, where the rooms are cramped and wallpaper and furniture dates back many decades and a shop which used to be a tailors still contains many of his designs.
Mikey from Manchester, like me, was quick to pick up on the resemblances between Leeds 9 and Salford. This area bears similarity to other urban regeneration in Ordsall, famous for Salford Lads Club.
A stereotypical view of the Northern England; all it need is a man with a cloth cap and a whippet :)
Not often you find one these days that's not full of wheelie bins or gatted at each end.
S303-S313 sit in Tocumwal Platform preparing to run back to Melbourne with 8398 Steamrail "Spirit of Progress" special - 9/3/2013