"BACK-TO-BACK" HOUSES
The "Back-to-Back" house had lon*' been the despair of tho housing reformer, in England. It exists in the ;. provinces •by the thousands. As its ■ jiamc implies, these houses are built in s pairs, the fronts facing two roads, so' that'1 tho'back of onc:house.is.also this back of another. There is no passage of air through either house. SuchJ houses arc,usually very old, and, apart from their peculiar formation, are of tea , quito out of date an habitations. .Tl"3 ; Corporation of Leicester recently made 'an ' order for the demolition of two : "back-to-back" houses, and. the mat- ■ tor "was taken, to the County, QOurt, where Judge Haydon. quashed the order. In doing- so lie said that in his :, opinion-* tho .corporation . should havo agrped to the .owner's'offer'to convert the-two" houses1 in r to one. The composite house so formed,-, he thought^ would 1)0 . iitfoi; the'occupation of- -persons of thd • working class. .
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Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 24, 29 January 1934, Page 3
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150"BACK-TO-BACK" HOUSES Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 24, 29 January 1934, Page 3
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