Urban : Terraced Housing

Another shot for my Urban project

This is Basford near to where I work and a street I walk down when on my lunchtime walk.

Basford is an inner city area and there are several streets with terraced houses.

I like how the doors open directly onto the street.

The community in Basford is quite a close knit community and everyone is friendly. I always exchange a few words with passers by, well perhaps a "hi you OK" / "hello" / "allright", although there are some locals I have longer conversations with, in fact I've shot a couple of Basford strangers for my 100 strangers project while wandering the streets

[Caterina]

Interesting narrative. I’ll go and check again your portraits

[KWind]

Super composiiton! I like how all the doors are different!

[Phil Howcroft]

@caterina Caterina, here they are....
https://365project.org/phil_howcroft/365/2017-10-23
https://365project.org/phil_howcroft/365/2018-01-04

[Phil Howcroft]

@kwind thank you for your kind words and observations on the doors :)

[Maggiemae]

The doors are nice but the living in these places is not to my taste. All that brick!

[Newbank Lass]

I have a HUGE soft spot for terraces. Spent many a happy year in terraces much like these in Leeds as a student. Our first married house was a terrace too. When we moved to where we are now to begin with I felt very isolated after years of terraced living.

[Graham Harcombe]

Yep... that captures the essence!

[Casablanca]

Reminds me of the back streets of Liverpool and Manchester too. Very similar terracing and on a hill. Things are different now, but 50 years ago all the ladies would have been out scrubbing the doorsteps as a sign of pride. Nice that the community there is still a close knit friendly one.

[Dione Giorgio]

My son lived for a few months in a terraced house like this when he moved to the UK to continue his specialist studies in psychiatry. And that was before he bought his own house.

[Hazel]

This is just so - well - urban. Our daughter lived in a similar house in Lancaster while at uni. I found it hard to get used to the lack of green trees in the streets.

[FBailey]

My first house was very similar to this, loved it dearly

[Kerri]

Awesome shot

[Suzanne]

My sons first house was a terraced house, it was surprisingly big inside and so much better built than modern houses

[Phil Howcroft]

@suzanne234 @kerristephens @fbailey @quietpurplehaze @sangwann @casablanca @ellida @newbank @maggiemae thanks everyone I grew up in a terraced house , albeit the terraced house had a bit of a garden and a wall on the front , Newbank, my daughter went to Leeds Met , was it Hyde Park ?

[Newbank Lass]

@phil_howcroft oh yes Hyde Park. Where did she live? I lived on Mayville St, Welton Grove and Hessle View. Hyde Park has its own special place in my heart! I was there 99-02

[Phil Howcroft]

@newbank newbank , Claire was at Leeds met 06 to 09 and when she graduated she worked in Leeds/ Bradford for 3 years. She lived in various locations ...kirkstall , headingley , city centre student flats and just outside Hyde Park on a cobbled street !

[Newbank Lass]

Lived in Leeds for 5 years after finishing. Lived in headingley and kirkstall too.