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This gentleman was one of the volunteer tour guides at the National Trust property in Birmingham - The back to back house on Hurst St.
He was a delightful man though reluctant to have his photo taken. I wasn’t sure if I should try harder to get him to let me take his picture. He told me he was always being asked to pose for the camera and didn’t feel like it on the day we visited. I did persist, gently, and he relented. We went out into the yard area of the property and this photo, one of three I took, is the result.
It was late in the afternoon and the light was dropping quickly, so I had to up the ISO to get a decent shutter speed. But the result is still pleasing.
I like the photos and hope the viewer does too. If he gets to see them I hope he does too. :-)
You can find out more about the National Trust here…http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/ and more on the back to backs here… www.nationaltrust.org.uk/birmingham-back-to-backs/
Royal Delta's winners' flower blanket hangs at the barn after she won her second-straight $1,818,000 Breeders' Cup Ladies' Classic (Gr. 1) at Santa Anita Park racetrack in Arcadia, California, U.S.A. Every Breeders' Cup winner gets a blanket of purple and gold mums.(Nov. 2, 2012)
Photo © 2012 Marcie Heacox, all rights reserved. FOR PERSONAL VIEWING PURPOSES ONLY.
On January 19, 2013, cast members of Ganesh Versus the Third Reich, in addition to director Bruce Gladwin and stage manager Alice Fleming, attended lunch with the Dartmouth organization ABLE (Access by Leadership and Equity).
Photo by Rob Strong
It's certainly harder to flank them this way!
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In the city of Zurich, by the lake, two people sitting back to back, one looking at the vu, protected by his hat, the other one reading the latest news. Close but not together black and white silhouettes of two young adults enjoying the silence
A young Muslim boy pushes a disabled one past the abandoned Razaq Bros premises Milan Road in Harehills.
one very curious factor of today's efforts was the abundance of reds and oranges I encountered within such a small area.
Whether this has any cultural reference to the area would be interesting to hear about
Jacquie, Sarah, and I ran three half marathons in three days (well Sarah ran a full and she is the pregnant one) in Oregon! Great time! I hope Sarah can make it next year as she'll have a baby! So much fun!
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).
candles and a clock
A rear view of the back to backs (showing bay windows), and also the rear of a row of "blind back" housing (no windows to the rear at all)
My old car, outside my old house. The house next door had it's window boarded up more often than not during the four years I lived here.
(replaced this photo in 2010 with increased contrast for better viewing - it was previously cloudy)
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.
1870's The Oldfield's.
Lodger bed divide