Posted by Laurence Monkhouse on April 16, 2003 at 05:43:29 from 62.252.32.6 user Laurence_.
In Reply to: Re: BECKFOOT layout - arrangements for eating posted by John Nichols on April 15, 2003 at 14:27:16:
Nothing will convince me that the house of a well-off Norfolk Solicitor in the early 1930s would not have had a bathroom!
The fact that Mrs McGinty brings hot water in the morning for the twins to wash is no proof at all. It might have simply been more convenient to heat the water for this on the kitchen stove. There would have been no gas in Horning so hot running water would have needed a fire to be on all night and during a mild April this probably wasn’t justifiable unless people were planning to have baths - which most people didn't on a daily basis.
Or even perhaps Mr Farland, planning ahead and with two growing daughters, wished to establish the precedent that he had first claim for the morning use of his own bathroom!