Lizzie had a kitchen? 
We did, in our two up two down, outside toilet, one coal fire in the front room.........and a kitchen with Belfast sink and the great 1950’s kitchen cabinet, house 
It’s all I knew for 7 years of my early life 
That is almost an identical description of our house, but no cabinet in our kitchen. Grandad was a shipwright by trade, and he made us a very posh bench seat for the out side lav. A massive piece of wood with a toilet pan sized hole in the middle. It was very smooth on the bottie when he made it, but even smoother after being sat on by us, and scrubbed by mum for ten years or so.
We had our baths in front of the coal fire, but those old houses were very strange. You would get a heat rash on one side from the fire, but the other side would be freezing cold. All of the heat was quickly taken away by draughts and single glazed, sliding sash windows that rattled in the wind.
Just before we moved to a bigger house there was seven of us in there. Mum, dad and five kids in two bedrooms.
I remember dad sold it for £250 in 1963, when I was 10, and paid £1995 for a three bed with a bathroom.
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