My memory of the Pheasey Estate is that the houses were virtually the same as those on the Beeches Estate where I lived, and were owned by the strict First National Housing Trust.
They had two downstairs rooms, a frontroom not used much, and a backroom about 10ft square known as the 'kitchen' but really a room for cooking, eating, washing, and sitting. The backroom had a chimmney breast with open fire grate and oven, and to the left was a cupboard and drawers. On the other side of the fire grate was a gas cooker and in another corner a crock sink, and old gas boiler for the wash, and a clothes rack which could be lowered from the ceiling.
Next to the kitchen was a lavatory, coal house, and a pantry.
When the housing trust sold the houses to the tenants, most people moved the toilet upstairs to the bathroom, a coal house was built outside, and the area converted into what would now be recognised as kitchen. The old 'kitchen' then became a normal living room.
It's funny how a thread brings up a memory, one that has suddenly come to me is of my sister, mom and me in the 'kitchen' on a rainy afternoon doing a jigsaw puzzle and singing along to a tune on the 'wireless' Pedro the Fisherman, which maybe dates it, but enough nostalgia for now.
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