Archers thread #200: Trouble in Ambridge! (All 200 threads could have had this title.) Discuss The Archers here.

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I think Bert may have slept downstairs ... I can't see him managing the stairs. They probably had a downstairs loo and the council may have added a shower - not that Bert would use it. The kitchen sink would be enough for him!

In about 1971 I lived in a downstairs flat in Clapham Junction, which was unofficially sublet by the council tenants upstairs - a young couple with two small children. So they had the bathroom but we had the kitchen. Lord knows how they cooked. There was an outside loo for us (fun on winter nights) but we strip-washed at the kitchen sink. But hey, £5 a month!

<on edit> It occurs to me that £5 a month may have been more than they paid in rent!