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English citations of backlet
- 1840, Charles Foster Barham, Report on the Sanitary State of the Labouring Classes in the Town of Truro, pages 3, 20:
- it is worse than useless to furnish these backlets with the mere semblance of drains — gutters forming pits here and there then as they approach the street, perhaps slightly covered so as to produce obstruction more frequently than protection, […] St. Clement's Street / Cock's Backlet, Row, or Court / Old Bridge Street / New Bridge Street / St. Austle Street / Eyre's Court or Backlet / […]
- 1854, Great Britain. General Board of Health, Public Health Act, 11 & 12 Vict. cap. 63. Report ... on a preliminary inquiry into the sewerage, drainage, and supply of water, and the sanitary condition of the inhabitants of the parliamentary borough of Devonport ... By Robert Rawlinson. [With a plan.], page 98:
- ... backlets than I could have wished ; but , in no case have I ever allowed a house to be built without one , and have for many years past inserted clauses in the leases to prevent any additional buildings being built in the backlets of […]
- 2021 June 15, John Husband, A-Z of Truro: Places-People-History, Amberley Publishing Limited, →ISBN:
- Opes / A characteristic that Truro shares with other Cornish towns are the narrow passageways which often form shortcuts between streets. These include Roberts Ope, Tippet's Backlet (Tippet was the owner of a fulling mill), Coombe's Lane, […]