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Back To Backs
📍 B5 4TE
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The Birmingham Back to Backs are the city's last surviving court of back-to-back houses. They are preserved as examples of the thousands of similar houses that were built around shared courtyards, for the rapidly increasing population of Britain's expanding industrial towns. They are a very particular sort of British terraced housing. Back-to-backs were later deemed unsatisfactory, and the passage of the Public Health Act 1875 meant that no more were built; instead byelaw ter... — Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
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Fri 13 Nov · 15:00
Sound of Wolves Cypher x HMV Wolverhampton
Hmv Wolves, Wolverhampton · 12.4 mi
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Fri 13 Nov · 18:00
Heavy Foks x Dive presents: ANAEMIA
DIVE, Wolverhampton, Wolverhampton · 12.4 mi
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Tue 15 Dec · 19:00
Xmas with Liam Price and Stephen Barratt
Next Door Bar, Albrighton · 19.5 mi
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Wed 16 Dec · 19:00
Xmas with Liam Price and Stephen Barratt
Next Door Bar, Albrighton · 19.5 mi
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🚆 Or come by train
- Birmingham New Street 0.2 miles
- Birmingham Moor Street 0.4 miles
- Birmingham Snow Hill 0.6 miles
Straight-line distances · live departures on each station page