A typical view

The atypical view below is a typical view of a back street in Halifax. The serried ranks of Victorian mill workers cottages may appear uniform, but they come in a surprising variety of designs. 

The least sought after are back to back with no front yard. The posh versions have a front yard and a back yard that leads to a cobbled back street like this one, straight out of Coronation Street.



I find it amazing that this scene is commonplace in twenty first century Britain. I can only assume they built them well a hundred years ago.

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  1. Jim Huckle23 March 2012 at 16:22

    My student house in Leeds looked a lot like that...

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