Date:1975
Description:One toilet shared between several households in a shed at the back. And there's no door! Several families in George Street and Homer Street forced the council to re-house them. These are the conditions of their original homes. This was the cover story in the November 1975 edition of The Heathan which can be accessed at <a href="http://www.search.digitalbalsallheath.org.uk/engine/resource/default.asp?txtKeywords=heathan&lstContext=2&lstResourceType=-1&lstExhibitionType=&chkPurchaseVisible=&txtDateFrom=&txtDateTo=&originator=%2Fengine%2Fsearch%2Fdefault_hndlr%2Easp&page=&records=&direction=&pointer=5137&text=0&resource=9935">this address</a>
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Several families in George Street and Homer Street forced the council to re-house them. These are the ...
One toilet shared between several households in a shed at the back. And there's no door! Several families ...
Housing conditions were so bad that a number of tenants were forced to take legal action against the ...
Here we see the interior of one of the tenant's houses before they were forced to take legal action. This ...
November 1975. Residents of two streets, George Street and Homer Street in Balsall Heath went to court ...
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