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Photographs by C D & A Willmott ,1950s.
9 Grove Road

In the 1950s a project was untaken jointly between the Gas Board and Tom Young (Builders) of Fitzwilliam Street, to renovate a terraced house in Grove Road. Mrs Young had bought the house for £380.

Built about 1880, it had three rooms up and two down, and rear extension of a scullery with copper, a 'shop' for 'outside' work for factories, a coal barn and outside lavatory.

The smallest room upstais was to become the bathroom. The scullery, lavatory and coal barn destined to be incorporated into a labour saving kitchen, with modern applicances including a refrigerator.

smallest room upstairs
The small room upstairs - to be a bathroom
After the building work was completed, Mrs Young spent about £100 on a selection of Do-It-Yourself products to enhance the final look.

the old kitchen
The old kitchen/scullery area
extension new appliances
Looking into the extended Kitchen area.........
...........and the modern appliances

old range lounge and doors to garden
And the dining/kitchen with range now has a
door into the garden and modern gas fire.


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