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shared housing
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maggiewinchester | Report | 19 Dec 2010 14:36 |
My mother, born in 1930, lived in a '2 up 2 down' terraced house, with a scullery attached to the back. |
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jax | Report | 19 Dec 2010 06:01 |
Bit different in the UK I dont know what the poulation of NZ was in the mid 1800s but you only have 4.5mil now where as there were over 17 mil in the UK back then and about 62mil now. |
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jeannie | Report | 19 Dec 2010 03:43 |
as far as i am aware in nz it was always one family per house. |
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KathleenBell | Report | 19 Dec 2010 00:24 |
On the 1901 census my great grandparents were boarders in a Victorian terraced house (which is still there today - nothing too large) along with 33 other boarders. Apart from my grandparents the others were all single men. |
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jax | Report | 19 Dec 2010 00:08 |
Do you know whether it was the norm in NZ 100 or so years ago to have one house per family? then again it may have been easy just to build something somewhere out of wood perhaps |
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Karen in the desert | Report | 18 Dec 2010 23:26 |
One famly per house is the norm here too!!! These days, anyway!! |
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AnnCardiff | Report | 18 Dec 2010 16:26 |
we had a tin bath, no electricity and a loo outside which my Dad had to empty in the garden periodically!!! happy days!!! |
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Treehunter | Report | 18 Dec 2010 15:49 |
There was 12 of us in 2 rooms when i was a kid. |
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InspectorGreenPen | Report | 18 Dec 2010 11:31 |
This was very common in large towns and cities. They were tenements rather than houses. There could sometimes be several families living at the same address, often with only one or two rooms each. |
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AnnCardiff | Report | 18 Dec 2010 10:36 |
my mother, born 1916 was one of nine children, seven being born in the same cottage which had only one bedroom!!!! |
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brummiejan | Report | 18 Dec 2010 07:17 |
You might like to look at this website - though it focuses on London the way of life described for the working classes could be applied to all cities: |
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jeannie | Report | 18 Dec 2010 06:25 |
hi all |
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