Our first home was the bottom floor of an old terrace house in Leicester,looking out onto a blank brick wall which formed the back of a garage business.The small living room contained an unusable iron kitchen range and there was a scullery with a deep stoneware sink and not much else apart from an ancient gas stove.No work surfaces. The lavatory was second foor along in the back yard, next to the coal house and was shared with the upstairs tenants who had either to walk through our flat to get to it or go out of the front door, along the pavement and down a little alleyway between the houses.The bathroom was in the upstairs flat and had a heater in a huge tank which took 24 hours to heat up enough water for one bath.We were happy to have our own place and lived there for 2 years,by which time we had saved up the deposit to buy an old detached house with a big garden which cost us £3750. How times have changed.We had no modern amenities,dreadful second hand furniture, no central heating but considered ourselves to be really fortunate.
Angela Rayner lashes out and calls Sunak “pint sized loser”.
Stabbing at a school in Wales this lunchtime.
Army horses loose on London streets