I guess it's where you come from as to what was still around when. My parents were re-housed from a dilapidated terraced house to a new council house estate in the early fifties. I was lucky enough to came into a world with electricity, mains water (hot if you lit a fire for the back-boiler), a radio (TV a lot later), indoor sanitation - toilet and bath, a gas boiler in the kitchen for the washing (replaced the old copper but we still had a wooden "posher" to agitate the clothes) and own garden.   This contrasted sharply with my aunt's house: about 10 or 12 foot wide; 2 rooms up, 2 down; no indoor plumbing - water, cold only, came from the sink tap in the brewhouse in the "party yard" (an area shared between 4 houses); the toilet was "up the yard"  - luckily mains drainage and also they didn't have to share with another house as some of the neighbours did; chamber pots under the bed; clothes washing, as described by others, using the copper in the brewhouse. Cooking was on a small gas stove installed sometime in the 1950's when the old "black lead," cast iron grate with integrated hob and small side oven was replaced with a modern fireplace. They had the electric put in mid to late 60's, until then it was gas lighting. Their street (School Street, Kingshill, Wednesbury) had gas lighting until around 1960.  The house (rented) had been the family home since the late 1800's and had housed my mother, her 4 sisters, 2 brothers and parents. It was demolished in the early 1970's and the family ( by then 2 maiden aunts and bachelor uncle) were rehoused into a council house. Mike Bryan Researching BRYAN, Wednesbury, Tipton; FORD Wednesbury, Darlaston