Day 27. Lived in Back to Back houses. circa 1827.

I don't want you to think that where I live is nothing but old buildings, it isn't. I plan on the last post to show you modern housing. This series of 3 photos shows a Back to Back house that is still just that and still lived in though fully modernised. In this row there were 16 separate dwellings, now there is only this end one that is still divided, making it 8 dwellings. The top picture shows the end one is much bigger then the rest so that is why it has not been knocked through. There are five rooms in the front one and five rooms in the back one, both with modern bathrooms, in fact the whole row have modern bathrooms and toilets of course. You can see, in the middle picture the defining line between the two halves. The bottom picture shows the 'privies' that have survived demolition and are now just storage space, there are 6 in this front block and 8 in the distant block. I think, and there appears evidence that one or two have been demolished, making it one for each dwelling. The inhabitants of the front ones, when answering a call of nature, would have to come out through the only door they had at the front and walk round the row to the back privies, come rain or snow.  I looked in one of the doors of the privy and there is still, under the rubble, a complete flushing toilet.