Sentence examples for back to back house from inspiring English sources

In 1830 the cost of building a small back to back house in Leeds was between seventy and eighty pounds.

They replaced run down back to back houses.

In Alan Bennett's 1980 play Enjoy, the last back-to-back house in Leeds is demolished and reconstructed brick by brick in a museum – with Mam still living in it as a part of the exhibit.

I, too, was put into a chest of drawers when I was born in a back-to-back house in Leeds, with a tin bath, shared toilet and dripping sandwiches for tea.

LINES of back-to-back houses in the title sequences of "Coronation Street", a television series, are the visual cliché for northern English working-class housing.

Many of the inner-city back-to-back houses that once provided an abundance of cheap lodgings were pulled down.

The world of back-to-back houses, hurrying crowds and smoking factories brought to life in a style at once idiosyncratic, primitive and profound.

One of the first acquisitions on her watch was a set of back-to-back houses that had been part of the slums of Birmingham.

Back-to-back houses can provide higher housing densities than tower blocks but without the problems of isolation and social exclusion that tower blocks can foster he says.

One of the most reviled house designs ever built was officially commemorated when the National Trust restored the last remaining back-to-back houses in Birmingham.

The ancient stadium had been transformed, a plenitude of back-to-back houses knocked down to accommodate it, not always to the satisfaction of their inhabitants.