Fairminer - Treneman - Family Tree

No. 5 Adare Walk - The 3 windows from the left, first floor
1 = Lounge
2 = Double bedroom
3 = Single bedroom

I, Les went with my parents to view the flat.
The thing I remember was that there was a black lead cast iron cooking range in the sitting room.
My parents asked for it to be removed, together with other bits, which the council did and fitted a tile surround fire place before we moved in.
My parents got a gas cooker for the first time and mother had to go to the gas showroom where they run cooking classes, as she had always cooked on wood/coal stoves.
There was a bath but no hot water for some years [No basin]
There was a galvanised "Copper" in the kitchen for doing the washing and boiling hot water.
There was a hand pump above the Copper which you could use to pump the water to the bath BUT the pipes were so rusty that the water came out brown, so you had to use a bucket.
After a few years the council install a water heater in the bathroom and the kitchen sink to the flats.
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As part of the rent agreement, you had to wash down the stair from your flat to the next landing down, every other week, with your neighbour doing the same on the other weeks.
Also there were washing line posts in the back yard, you had to provide your own washing line and had a named weekday when you could use it and only that day.
So if it rained that day, your flat was full of wet washing hanging every where !!!
These rules in later years lead to a lot of arguments.

In 2011 it sold for £183,000 leasehold