The Yard Was Full of Rats so You'd Try Not to Use the Toilet at Night ; What It Was Like to Live in a Back-to-Back House
Sunday Mercury › July 26, 2004
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Birmingham's last back-to-back houses have just opened as a tourist attraction. LORNE JACKSON meets some of the families who lived in them - and discovers why they avoided using the loo at night.
HISTORY isn't just a musty old schoolbook, filled with creaking tales of kings and castles.See the full content of this document
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The Yard Was Full of Rats so You'd Try Not to Use the Toilet at Night ; What It Was Like to Live in a Back-to-Back House
It is also a stench, a flavour, something to be sucked and crunched.
Our shared past is a rickety old out-house, gobstoppers fresh from the jar, the dirt and debris from days gone by.Sometimes history can even be a rat.Luckily there aren't any rodents currently rampaging thr...See the full content of this document
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