That brings back memories.I'm amazed none of our family ever had an accident going up or down those stairs, and God knowsView attachment 175084some old houses still standing in small heath have narrow winding stairs like b2b had
joeboybollo that is a very good point..had not thought of that..like you i was born in a proper back to back..just 1 bedroon and 1 attic but have great memories
This may bring back some memories for you.
Been there,done that
That looks like me ,top left,at front.Except I couldn't have long trouser till I was 14!! Can you imagine kids of 14 going to school nowadays in short trousers??haha
Oh, so how many times have many of us done that! Didn't know about buying anything because we didn't have any money! Wish I could teach my grandchildren that!
through the window in some cases.
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Our 1950s back-to-back in Sparkbrook was infested with the little devils.there back and soon will be in brum again
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There's something to look forward to.there back and soon will be in brum again
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On a short break in a rented house in Cheltenham a week ago I was bitten by what looked like a dog flea. Made me appreciate what the ancestors had to cope with.
and our house in nechells was we hated going to school with the lumps on us., when he bedroom ceiling fell down on us one night there was hundred in the old horse hair plaster and laths. we had to go outside and wait for the estates to come out. that is when we was took for fumigating and emergency re homed that was just positively shocking
I lived in one, literally a stones throw from the National Trust show homes,which are much too tidy! Ours was very similar to the one mw0njm(Nechells dude) lived in.6 families sharing 3 lavatories and a brew house to do the washing in.I didnt realize it was hard going until I grew up
I thought the houses looked great, then I rotated around to look at what you see looking out of the front door, oh my goodness!nice one here of the back to backs from the inge st side..and a street view of how they look now..
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It's a new side to the Hippodrome!
Certainly nothing creative about the building though!
I lived in one in Lozells until I was 10. Shared outside toilet with next door neighbours and the two houses facing the street shared the other. Didn't know the building where washing was done was brew house until researching family history. Remember the large "cauldron" which was used and a place to lite a fire underneath (?)
Same thing when we lived at 16 Alfred St in Aston. I always thought that the large cauldron was where the washing was done, although my uncles always seemed to spent a lot of time in there, we lived with my Nanna.
Wow! Talk about a blast from the past! I see wha5 looks like part of the mangle off to the left side!
Just showed my wife your picture Lyn. She was was born and lived in Manhattan until she was ten. Her grandparents were Italian immigrants. She lived in a three story walk up. Looking at the picture she was amazed when I described how it worked and the sharing.
Oh how times hav3 changed!
It's like the one I couldn't turn.
Its like the one I couldn't turn. Small Mangle on the right too at the front.
Great picture
My mate's gran gave me an imagibary washboard demo. She stood behind it with a big block of soap and scrubbed up & down the bottom of it in the poss tub. For sone reason I didn't think you stood up. The granny had a small one on her sink in the 70s still.
Also like the one I got my fingers stuck in!
I can remember a clothes horse a bit like my bad drawing, three sections joined by hinges, which stood in front of the fire
