Back of the end house in Berkeley Street
Lichfield Street end of the entry.

Workshops and outhouses of the end terraced house

"I lived in the corner house mentioned above.  It was my family's home for many years.  My mother lived there from birth, 1921, until the property was bought under compulsory purchase because of the land clearance scheme in 2001.

As I understand it, it was built by Cornes Builders, and was the first one to be built as a stand alone property.  The rest of the terraced houses being subsequently added at a later date. 

My grandfather was a coal merchant and the out houses shown were used as stables for his horses.  The feeding troughs were still there when the house was demolished.  The first floor being used to store hay as well as other things.  My grandfather died in 1959 at the age of 75.
I was born in 1952 and I remember helping to deliver coal to the houses around using wooden coal trucks which were like large wooden boxes on two iron wheels, with two wooden handles. They would hold up to 2 cwt of coal, approx.  My cousins did the pushing and I rode inside.  I was only a toddler at the time.  I remember chickens being kept in the 'big yard' as we called the area  surrounded by the rear of the house."