General Chat

Living in town in the Boro in a 2 Up 2 down. No bathroom and a toilet in the yard. Staying with a cousin in Tollesby where they had a garden was magic to me. There was a grassy area in front of their house with a beck. We fished for Sticklebacks.

We walked up the fields to see the horses. There is a school built there now.


Happy Days and great memories

I have never lived in a street house
though My Auntie did
The outside toilet amazed met

I was born in a Prefab then moved when I was 3
To a new 3 bedroomed house with a garden
and all the mod cons
My Brother still lives there :-D :-D

Strange thing looking back
Everybody was either my Auntie and Uncle
and when my Mum died when I was 15
I had a hard time understanding
Who I was really related to and who I wasn't

When you say street house, Joy, do you mean a terraced house?

When I was born, my parents lived in rooms in a terraced house, presumably a hall entranced one. They are gone now and industrial buildings built on the site. I think Mum might have had to share the kitchen and other facilities with Mrs Cullum, the old lady who owned the property. When Mum was pregnant with my brother and I was 2, they moved in with my aunt and her family. Maybe the old lady died or moved out, I don't know, but it did mean we got a new council house soon after my bro was born and it was the family home for over 45 years till Mum died and we had to hand it back to the council. Mum and Dad could have bought it for £11, 000 at one time, but 'didn't want to be in debt with a mortgage'. Such a shame, there were so many memories in that house, and it's worth around £250, 000 now. Someone I know was allocated it and used 'right to buy' a year later. She is still there, but doesn't use the garden, with only part of it lawned and the rest wild, as she 'isn't into gardening'. My Dad would be heartbroken.

Lizx

A street house is terraced house
Back to back with a yard and no garden
and outside toilets Liz
Usually in the Town centre

I have never lived in the town Center
But some of my family have :-D

Joy

A Back to Back only had a front door and shared party wall on 3 sides. Toilets and water supplies were shared by multiple households in enclosed courtyards.
The Public Health Act Of 1875 permitted municipal corporations to ban new Back to Backs replacing them with terrace houses.
The city of Leeds opted not enforce the ban and they continued to be constructed until the 1930s.
Terrace houses had a back yard and outside toilet.
The house I was born in on the 1881 census had 2 families of 6 living there. Can’t imagine how 12 people managed in 2 up 2 down. No electricity. My granddad lived opposite us and still had the Black lead fire with an oven.
My parents could have bought the house in the 1950s for £75
All those houses were demolished by 1964

There are back to backs in Birmingham, they are now a museum.

Joy like Bobs waist coat , ;-) all the houses are long gone now from my childhood years ago. one thing left is my old infants school still in use cant believe that after over 60years .car parks & shops .& the school at the end of the car park .that's in Lancashire .remember back to back houses my grandma & granddad had an out side toilet .but it had whitewashed walls posh eh :-D they were landlord & landlady of a pub so must have had money for whitewash .its great to look back does that mean I am getting old ;-) Night all

We used to wait for Fadgies to come out the oven
and eat them hot with
And my Dad had Chickens geese and ducks
He also used to go shooting and fishing
and he grew vegetables on his allotment
So we always had plenty of food
My Mum sewed and Knit :-D :-D

And every year we went to Robinhoods Bay for two weeks
Where we caught crabs and picked winkles

Those where the Days :-D :-D :-D