Back-to-back house
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Back-to-backs are a form of terraced houses in the United Kingdom, built from the late 18th century through to the early 20th century in various forms throughout the North of England and parts of the
Street-fronted back-to-back terraces in Harold Grove, Leeds
Back-to-back housing courtyard, 1883
Plans for houses in Nottingham, 1844
With no rear yard, across-street washing lines are employed with a pulley operated from street level.
Slum clearance in the United Kingdom has been used as an urban renewal strategy to transform low-income settlements with poor reputation into another type of development or housing. Early mass clearan
Back-to-back house
…houses with builders and residents led to their continued construction in Leeds until the 1930s. Most back-to-backs were demolished in waves of slum clearances, although many remain in Leeds and Bradford. The cities of Birmingham and Liverpool, where thousands of back-to-backs were built, both chose to retain…
Boundary Street in London, part of the Old Nichol slum
John Grantham, Sheriff of Newcastle, surveying slum clearance areas during a visit by the Minister of Health, 16 October 1925
Beaconsfield Street in Liverpool, pictured in 2012, originally to be demolished as part of housing renewal. The houses have since been restored.