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Courtyards and yards of brum
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st.evenlucy
master brummie
there were three terraces in Lawrence Street A,B, and C terrace. this is one of them. they wer'nt back to back houses, each one had a front and back door. I read somewhere that these homes were the first council houses in Brum and were first occupied by police families from Duke Street.
Frothblower
Lubrication In Moderation
Fantastic photos
TOPSYTURVEY
brum
Smashing pictures. Love the yards and courtyard pictures. What a danger some of them were for the kids playing although they wouldn,t have noticed i don,t suppose... Nice to see your Paddington St ones Lyn.
Frothblower
Lubrication In Moderation
My wife Cathy lived at 16 back of 8 Cooksey road
Michael_Ingram
gone but not forgotten
This is a special thread and many thanks to Lyn for starting it.
These could be described as the hidden and secret places of Birmingham but in reality they were the landscape that many of us grew up in and knew intimately; they are a picture of the world that shaped us. We know that they were slums but to me they show us lost world which I dearly miss.
This picture has been posted before and in books is labelled as Geach Street. It was adjacent to Geach Street but the entry was actually in Guildford Street; a court back of 26 were I was born. Locally the court was known as The Barracks, due the number of families that lived there. There were fourteen houses.
I wrote about it in the story posted here: https://birminghamhistory.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?t=2580
There was a tree in front of our back gate. We had our own back yard with a gate led into the Barracks. The area was demolished in the mid sixties and I visited the area in the early seventies. The geography of streets had changed but I located a small children's playground on the site of the Barracks. Surrounded by a low circle of bricks was the stump of the tree. Attempts had been made to burn it bit it had survived. I still have a small splinter of wood from that tree.
These could be described as the hidden and secret places of Birmingham but in reality they were the landscape that many of us grew up in and knew intimately; they are a picture of the world that shaped us. We know that they were slums but to me they show us lost world which I dearly miss.
This picture has been posted before and in books is labelled as Geach Street. It was adjacent to Geach Street but the entry was actually in Guildford Street; a court back of 26 were I was born. Locally the court was known as The Barracks, due the number of families that lived there. There were fourteen houses.
I wrote about it in the story posted here: https://birminghamhistory.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?t=2580
There was a tree in front of our back gate. We had our own back yard with a gate led into the Barracks. The area was demolished in the mid sixties and I visited the area in the early seventies. The geography of streets had changed but I located a small children's playground on the site of the Barracks. Surrounded by a low circle of bricks was the stump of the tree. Attempts had been made to burn it bit it had survived. I still have a small splinter of wood from that tree.