1901 - Rooms Occupied

[Just Kia]

You're human, we all do it and you're forgiven

[Ruskie]

Is your g granddad's cottage still there Justkia? Sounds a bit like my place ... small and crammed with furniture and 'stuff'. 

I don't know why Marsland Close didn't come up as a 'suggestion' when I typed it into the box on google maps ... 

[Just Kia]

No, sadly they knocked the cottages down a long time ago and instead built a very large 4 bed semi (well two techincally, I suppose ) in what used to be the gardens.
So, it's gone from 2 tiny cottages with lots of garden space (good for growing veggies = free food) to 2 large houses with postage stamp gardens.

The local vicar lives in one of them, while the rectory was divided into 2 (I think. Ppossibly 3) dwellings and sold to private buyers.

I'm just glad that I got to know 1xG Granddad and to have memories of the little cottage.

I have to wonder though how a young couple with small children in 2 room accomdation managed to err... have more children. I suppose they "lived" in the kitchen (if they had one) and mom/dad slept in one room with the children bunking in together in the other room?

[Ruskie]

No, sadly they knocked the cottages down a long time ago and instead built a very large 4 bed semi (well two techincally, I suppose ) in what used to be the gardens.

Oh, that's a shame ... 

I have to wonder though how a young couple with small children in 2 room accomdation managed to err... have more children. I suppose they "lived" in the kitchen (if they had one) and mom/dad slept in one room with the children bunking in together in the other room?

Maybe ... or maybe they all shared the same room/bed.  I don't think they expected the same privacy in days gone by, as we do today.

[nikkstercricket]

I've just started reading 'The Five' by Hallie Rubenhold which gives a fairly gruesome description of living conditions in London in the late 1880s (for the poor obviously!).  People living in lodging houses with "all lodgers...entitled to make use of the communal kitchen which was open all day and late into the night." (Ch 1).  Ch 2 continues 'most families shared one room, the average size of which measured from 8 feet to 10 feet, by 8 feet, and from 6 to 8 feet from floor to ceiling...one large timber-framed and plaster house had been subdivided into three separate dwellings, before being apportioned once more into individually rented rooms.' 

A bit earlier than the period you're looking for but gives an idea of what it may have been like. 

I can highly recommended the book by the way if anyone is interested in Victorian history!