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Back-to-back house

Index Back-to-back house

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 guises. [1]

59 relations: Allotment (gardening), Artisans' and Labourers' Dwellings Improvement Act 1875, Birmingham, Birmingham Back to Backs, Birmingham Small Heath (UK Parliament constituency), Bradford, Bradford Industrial Museum, Briggate, Leeds, Building regulations in the United Kingdom, Burley, Leeds, Buy to let, Byelaw terraced house, Christopher Addison, 1st Viscount Addison, City of Salford, Damp proofing, Diarrhea, Eminent domain, Flush toilet, Headingley, Historic house museum, Housing of the Working Classes Act 1885, Housing of the Working Classes Act 1890, Industrial Revolution, Inner city, James Niven, John Birchall, Kirkstall, Labour and Co-operative, Leeds, Listed buildings in Birmingham, Liverpool, Manchester, Medical Officer for Health, Mill town, Modern convenience, Municipal corporation, Museum of Liverpool, National trust, National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty, Neville Chamberlain, Nottingham, Party wall, Population density, Pre-regulation terraced houses in the United Kingdom, Project Gutenberg, Public Health Act 1875, Public housing in the United Kingdom, Scotland Road, Slum clearance, Standpipe (street), ..., Sunderland, Terraced house, Terraced houses in the United Kingdom, The Blitz, Two-up two-down, Urbanization, Victorian era, William Wheeldon, Working class. Expand index (9 more) »

Allotment (gardening)

An allotment garden (British English), often called simply an allotment, or a community garden (North America) is a plot of land made available for individual, non-commercial gardening or growing food plants.

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Artisans' and Labourers' Dwellings Improvement Act 1875

The Artisans' and Labourers' Dwellings Improvement Act 1875 was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom designed by Richard Cross, Home Secretary during Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli's second Conservative Government, which involved allowing local councils to buy up areas of slum dwellings in order to clear and then rebuild them.

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Birmingham

Birmingham is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands, England, with an estimated population of 1,101,360, making it the second most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.

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Birmingham Back to Backs

The Birmingham Back to Backs (also known as Court 15) are the city's last surviving court of back-to-back houses.

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Birmingham Small Heath (UK Parliament constituency)

Birmingham Small Heath was a parliamentary constituency centred on the Small Heath area of Birmingham.

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Bradford

Bradford is in the Metropolitan Borough of the City of Bradford in West Yorkshire, England, in the foothills of the Pennines west of Leeds, and northwest of Wakefield.

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Bradford Industrial Museum

Bradford Industrial Museum, established 1974 in Moorside Mills, Eccleshill, Bradford, United Kingdom, specializes in relics of local industry, especially printing and textile machinery, kept in working condition for regular demonstrations to the public.

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Briggate, Leeds

Briggate is one of the pedestrianised principal shopping streets in central Leeds, England.

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Building regulations in the United Kingdom

The UK's Building regulations are statutory instruments that seek to ensure that the policies set out in the relevant legislation are carried out.

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Burley, Leeds

Burley is an inner city area of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, north-west of Leeds city centre, between the A65 Kirkstall Road at the south and Headingley at the north, in the Kirkstall ward.

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Buy to let

Buy-to-let is a British phrase referring to the purchase of a property specifically to let out, that is to rent it out.

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Byelaw terraced house

A byelaw terraced house is a type of dwelling built to comply with the Public Health Act 1875.

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Christopher Addison, 1st Viscount Addison

Christopher Addison, 1st Viscount Addison, (19 June 1869 – 11 December 1951) was a British medical doctor and politician.

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City of Salford

The City of Salford is a city and metropolitan borough in Greater Manchester, England, named after its largest settlement, Salford, but extending west to include the towns of Eccles, Worsley, Swinton, Walkden and Irlam.

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Damp proofing

Damp proofing in construction is a type of moisture control applied to building walls and floors to prevent moisture from passing into the interior spaces.

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Diarrhea

Diarrhea, also spelled diarrhoea, is the condition of having at least three loose or liquid bowel movements each day.

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Eminent domain

Eminent domain (United States, Philippines), land acquisition (Singapore), compulsory purchase (United Kingdom, New Zealand, Ireland), resumption (Hong Kong, Uganda), resumption/compulsory acquisition (Australia), or expropriation (France, Italy, Mexico, South Africa, Canada, Brazil, Portugal, Spain, Chile, Denmark, Sweden) is the power of a state, provincial, or national government to take private property for public use.

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Flush toilet

A flush toilet (also known as a flushing toilet, flush lavatory, or water closet (WC)) is a toilet that disposes of human excreta (urine and feces) by using water to flush it through a drainpipe to another location for disposal, thus maintaining a separation between humans and their excreta.

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Headingley

Headingley is a suburb of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, approximately two miles out of the city centre, to the north west along the A660 road.

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Historic house museum

A historic house museum is a house that has been transformed into a museum.

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Housing of the Working Classes Act 1885

The Housing of the Working Classes Act 1885 (48 & 49 Vict. c. 72) was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

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Housing of the Working Classes Act 1890

The Housing of the Working Classes Act 1890 (53 & 54 Vict. c. 70) was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

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Industrial Revolution

The Industrial Revolution was the transition to new manufacturing processes in the period from about 1760 to sometime between 1820 and 1840.

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Inner city

The inner city or inner town is the central area of a major city or metropolis.

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James Niven

James Niven (12 August 1851 – 30 September 1925) was a Scottish physician most famous for his work during the Spanish Flu outbreak in 1918 as Manchester's Medical Officer of Health.

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John Birchall

Major Sir John Dearman Birchall TD (26 September 1875 – 6 January 1941) was a British soldier and Conservative Party politician.

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Kirkstall

Kirkstall is a north-western suburb of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, on the eastern side of the River Aire.

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Labour and Co-operative

Labour and Co-operative Party (often abbreviated Labour Co-op; Llafur a’r Blaid Gydweithredol) is a description used by candidates in United Kingdom elections who stand on behalf of both the Labour Party and the Co-operative Party.

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Leeds

Leeds is a city in the metropolitan borough of Leeds, in the county of West Yorkshire, England.

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Listed buildings in Birmingham

There are 1,946 listed buildings in Birmingham, England.

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Liverpool

Liverpool is a city in North West England, with an estimated population of 491,500 in 2017.

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Manchester

Manchester is a city and metropolitan borough in Greater Manchester, England, with a population of 530,300.

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Medical Officer for Health

Medical Officer of Health, Medical Health Officer or District Medical Officer, is a title and commonly used for the senior government official of a health department or agency, usually at a municipal, county/district, state/province, or regional level.

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Mill town

A mill town, also known as factory town or mill village, is typically a settlement that developed around one or more mills or factories, usually cotton mills or factories producing textiles.

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Modern convenience

Modern conveniences are labor-saving devices, services, and substances that make a task easier or more efficient to perform than a traditional method.

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Municipal corporation

A municipal corporation is the legal term for a local governing body, including (but not necessarily limited to) cities, counties, towns, townships, charter townships, villages, and boroughs.

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Museum of Liverpool

The Museum of Liverpool in Liverpool, England, is the newest addition to the National Museums Liverpool group having opened in 2011 replacing the former Museum of Liverpool Life.

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National trust

A national trust is an organisation dedicated to preserving the cultural heritage of a particular geographic region.

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National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty

The National Trust, formally the National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty, is a conservation organisation in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, and the largest membership organisation in the United Kingdom.

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Neville Chamberlain

Arthur Neville Chamberlain (18 March 1869 – 9 November 1940) was a British statesman of the Conservative Party who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from May 1937 to May 1940.

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Nottingham

Nottingham is a city and unitary authority area in Nottinghamshire, England, north of London, in the East Midlands.

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Party wall

A party wall (occasionally parti-wall or parting wall, also known as common wall) is a dividing partition between two adjoining buildings that is shared by the occupants of each residence or business.

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Population density

Population density (in agriculture: standing stock and standing crop) is a measurement of population per unit area or unit volume; it is a quantity of type number density.

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Pre-regulation terraced houses in the United Kingdom

A pre-regulation terraced house is a type of dwelling constructed before Public Health Act 1875.

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Project Gutenberg

Project Gutenberg (PG) is a volunteer effort to digitize and archive cultural works, to "encourage the creation and distribution of eBooks".

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Public Health Act 1875

The Public Health Act 1875 is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, one of the Public Health Acts, and a significant step in the advance of public health in Britain.

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Public housing in the United Kingdom

Public housing in the United Kingdom provided the majority of rented accommodation in the country until 2011.

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Scotland Road

Scotland Road or "Scottie Road" is the A59 and is situated near the docks in the Vauxhall area of north Liverpool, England.

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Slum clearance

Slum clearance, slum eviction or slum removal is an urban renewal strategy used to transform low income settlements with poor reputation into another type of development or housing.

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Standpipe (street)

A standpipe is a freestanding pipe fitted with a tap which is installed outdoors to dispense water in areas which do not have a running water supply to the buildings.

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Sunderland

Sunderland is a city at the centre of the City of Sunderland metropolitan borough, in Tyne and Wear, North East England, 10 miles southeast of Newcastle upon Tyne, 12 miles northeast of Durham, 101 miles southeast of Edinburgh, 104 miles north-northeast of Manchester, 77 miles north of Leeds, and 240 miles north-northwest of London.

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Terraced house

In architecture and city planning, a terraced or terrace house (UK) or townhouse (US) exhibits a style of medium-density housing that originated in Europe in the 16th century, where a row of identical or mirror-image houses share side walls.

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Terraced houses in the United Kingdom

Terraced houses have been popular in the United Kingdom, particularly England and Wales, since the 17th century.

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The Blitz

The Blitz was a German bombing offensive against Britain in 1940 and 1941, during the Second World War.

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Two-up two-down

Two-up two-down is type of small house with two main rooms on the ground floor and two bedrooms upstairs.

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Urbanization

Urbanization refers to the population shift from rural to urban residency, the gradual increase in the proportion of people living in urban areas, and the ways in which each society adapts to this change.

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Victorian era

In the history of the United Kingdom, the Victorian era was the period of Queen Victoria's reign, from 20 June 1837 until her death on 22 January 1901.

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William Wheeldon

William Edwin Wheeldon (20 February 1898 – 7 October 1960) was a British co-operator and municipal politician from Small Heath Borough Constituency in Birmingham who later became a Member of Parliament.

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Working class

The working class (also labouring class) are the people employed for wages, especially in manual-labour occupations and industrial work.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back-to-back_house

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