HOW HOUSES HAVE CHANGED IN OUR LIFETIMES
By the residents of Perry House |
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Houses are very different now to what they were when we were growing up 70 or 80 years ago. We didn’t have running water in the house and we used gas lamps and candles instead of electric lights. We had a coal fire in the bedroom but it was so cold that if you took a glass of water into the bedroom it would have ice in it by the morning. There were no indoor bathrooms or toilets and you had to get your fresh water from a stand pipe in the road. There were no flats then and no “council” houses. There were lots of cottages or small houses with two rooms downstairs and two or three rooms upstairs. We have seen lots of new houses built and lots of land has been built on that used to be orchards or allotments or gardens of big houses. Where North Burnham Estate is there used to be cottages and a pub called the Alma Arms. Britwell Estate used to be farmland. Clonmel Way was built where Dr Flew’s house and garden used to be. |
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How our houses are different by children from St Peter’s School |
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We have all sorts of things in our houses now that people didn’t have years ago. Running water – so we can have central heating, indoor bathrooms, toilets, washing machines and dishwashers Electricity – so we can have lights, televisions, computers, fridges, vacuum cleaners, CD players and PS2’s. And we have lots of other things now which people didn’t have in the past like fitted carpets, cameras and junk food. |