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back to back pics...

Astoness

Astoness

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hi all...these pics are taken from city of birmingham cine film of the back to backs of birmingham...mostly in the ladywood area dated 1937...i find it so amazing looking at these as even with the obvious hardships of that time the ladies can still manage a smile.....and we moan.....

ps...i had rellies all over ladywood at that time and well before so for all i know one of the ladies could be mine...or even yours....fascinating to think that..

lyn
 
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thanks david....i was just looking at them again and thinking how hard life must have been but little did they know then that 2 years later at the outbreak of ww2 life was to become even harder for them....

cheers...

lyn
 
hi rob...glad you like them...there are a couple of dvds you can buy of back to back life with original footage and i keep meaning to treat myself...a couple of years ago i went to a slide show at the uniity club summer lane and keith clenton was showing one of them....by the time it had finished i was in tears at the stories related and the conditions endured...after seeing this there was no doubt in my mind that some of the back to backs were horrific places to live in and had to go...although not all ...as i was born in one in paddington st and it no way reflected the ones i had seen at the slide show....i must have been one of the lucky ones i guess...

lyn
 
Hi Lyn, it really opens your eyes to the conditions that our forefathers, and mothers lived in years ago, I was was born in a back to back in Hick Street, but was lucky enough
to escape to the "Green Fields" of Yardley Wood in 1933, that lady with fur collar looks a bit too posh for Balsall Heath, arnt we lucky to be see how folk lived so many
years ago, take care now, Bernard
 
good evening bernard...it certainly does open yours eyes thats for sure...and ive said this many times before and i will say it again...i only have admiration for all those who lived through these hard times and even more for those who managed to survive it all....

lyn
 
If anyone has pictures of the back to back houses in Hick St I would love to see them and show them to my mother. We (the Bakers) lived at 12/2 Hick St until 1962. My father Peter has passed on but my mother Grace/Doris is alive and well aged 88.


Bernard67Arnold said:
Hi Lyn, it really opens your eyes to the conditions that our forefathers, and mothers lived in years ago, I was was born in a back to back in Hick Street, but was lucky enough
to escape to the "Green Fields" of Yardley Wood in 1933, that lady with fur collar looks a bit too posh for Balsall Heath, arnt we lucky to be see how folk lived so many
years ago, take care now, Bernard
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