Black British History: Birmingham Back-to-Backs, Hurst St/Inge St: "I spent the day in Bham yesterday and enjoyed the free exhibition available at the Birmingham Back-to-Backs. It included many interactive in..."
The Meakins were the last to live on Hurst St/Inge St, Bham in the 1960s, when the properties were condemned for domestic use – after all they didn’t have bathrooms. Others used the properties as places of business and workshops, but lived elsewhere.
Reading about Bill Perks, the child of nailers in Bromsgrave, who had 6 children, though there was only one bedroom, made me think of back to backs. However, in Bromsgrove the Perks family parents had a garden in which they kept three pigs, and poultry. See pg 56 & 88 of ‘The Bygone Bromsgrove Picture Book by Alan & Sheila Richards (1983) published by The Bromsgrove Society.
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