"We wish you a Merry Christmas, We Wish you a Merry Christmas..."

On the 8th of December Cailey, Lizz, Pendray and I went to the Back to Backs to do some Christmas caroling, eat minced pies and drink mulled wine. Oh, and almost freeze ourselves to death...worth it? Yes!


The back-to-backs are terraced houses which shared back walls, literally built back to back. From Wikipedia: "The Birmingham Back to Backs (also known as Court 15) at 50–54 Inge Street and 55–63Hurst Street are the last surviving court of back-to-back houses in Birmingham, England, now operated as a museum by the National Trust.

They are examples of the thousands of similar houses that were built, literally back to back, around courtyards, for the rapidly increasing population of Britain's expanding industrial towns.

Numerous back-to-back houses, two or three storeys high, were built in Birmingham during the 19th century, the majority of them were still in quite good condition in the early 20th century and also prior to their demolition. Most of these houses were concentrated in inner-city areas such asLadywood, Handsworth, Aston, Small Heath and Highgate. By the early 1970s, almost all of Birmingham's back-to-back houses had been demolished. The occupants were rehoused in new council houses and flats, some in redeveloped inner-city areas, while the majority moved to new housing estates such as Castle Vale and Chelmsley Wood."

This link has quite of good description of what they are: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birmingham_Back_to_Backs

For the sake of time (honestly, I should be cleaning my room right now. It may take days.) I will have to leave the description to that. But here are some photos of our night!