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So how do they fit Max and Lily in a box room? Or is it Sarah, Bethany and Harry
. Our old house had a box room and barely had room for a single bed never mind a bunk bed for two kids and all of their stuff.it was big enough for her and michael first time round so two kids would be no problem. from the outside the house doesn't look like it has size issues |
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I've just been watching the episode where David pushes Gail down the stairs after finding out she'd help Tina through her abortion.
David's bedroom (at the time) was at the top of the stairs directly in front of you; the box room being to the left and I assume the third bedroom and bathroom to the right (off screen). Although the houses weren't to scale over at Quay Street I remember seeing Gail Worth talking about the time they were in the garage with Richard and how the car (Vauxhall Zafira?) barely fit! ![]() but its still tardis like! I used to live in a terrace house that had 4 floors, the basement, ground floor which had living room and kitchen. 1st floor had a bedroom (size of the living room and huge) bathroom. loft was converted to a second bedroom. two of us lived in that house. the terrace opp us, was 1 bed and the attic not converted a family moved in, we thought that must be a squeeze, then one of thems parent's arrived from overseas followed by brothers and sisters (I assume) at one point there was about 15 people living in the house! a little while ago, I got talking to a dog walker, he lived in a two bed flat, him and his girlfriend and two dogs one of which was a german shepherd and not small! her parents came over from Poland and decided to stay but they couldnt afford anywhere bigger so 4 adults and two dogs in a pokey flat. but that is life not everyone is popping out kids for benefits and then demanding that the council give them a bigger houst. if you cant afford more space you learn to utilise it best you can |
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I don't understand why Sarah, Bethany and Harry live there. Why not stay with Audrey in her 3 bed in Grassmere Drive? Surely the overcrowding, Sarah being recently released from a psych unit and a new baby being in the house means some housing benefit and welfare payments so Sarah can get her own place? The house isn't a Tardis and Max is too old to be sharing with Lily. How can Gail fit in the box room with Michael? Was Bethany staying with Nick? Four adults, a teenager, 2 kids and a newborn in a 3 bed with annexe is silly.
I wonder the same thing about Chesney's. Firstly it's Les's council house so how come he's still in it? It has two bedrooms - one for Chesney and Sinead and one for Kirk and Beth. Where does Craig sleep? The airing cupboard? ![]() I've always wondered about No.5, because when the Battersby's lived there Nick and Leanne (when they got married in the 90s) had to sleep on the couch as there were only two bedrooms hence why they moved in with Ashley. |
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BIB - Not to mention only one bathroom
![]() I've always wondered about No.5, because when the Battersby's lived there Nick and Leanne (when they got married in the 90s) had to sleep on the couch as there were only two bedrooms hence why they moved in with Ashley. |
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BIB - Not to mention only one bathroom
![]() I've always wondered about No.5, because when the Battersby's lived there Nick and Leanne (when they got married in the 90s) had to sleep on the couch as there were only two bedrooms hence why they moved in with Ashley. |
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Gail has an en suite in her annexe which must be huge. It's got from snug for a Vauxhall Zafira to being big enough for a bedroom and bathroom. The Rovers got silly for a while too but that living room upstairs seems to have been forgotten about now.
Ah yes the rovers second living room, which made a couple of appearances in 08/09 and hasn't been seen since... |
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Oh yeah I forgot about the ensuite, I think it's only a toilet though...the whole house is a tardis
Ah yes the rovers second living room, which made a couple of appearances in 08/09 and hasn't been seen since... ![]() Liz mentioned it the other nght tho |
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I don't understand why Sarah, Bethany and Harry live there. Why not stay with Audrey in her 3 bed in Grassmere Drive? Surely the overcrowding, Sarah being recently released from a psych unit and a new baby being in the house means some housing benefit and welfare payments so Sarah can get her own place? The house isn't a Tardis and Max is too old to be sharing with Lily. How can Gail fit in the box room with Michael? Was Bethany staying with Nick? Four adults, a teenager, 2 kids and a newborn in a 3 bed with annexe is silly.
I wonder the same thing about Chesney's. Firstly it's Les's council house so how come he's still in it? It has two bedrooms - one for Chesney and Sinead and one for Kirk and Beth. Where does Craig sleep? The airing cupboard? |
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Chesneys house is the same as all the others on the Street, they have 3 bedrooms upstairs.
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Chesneys house is the same as all the others on the Street, they have 3 bedrooms upstairs.
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They aren't. If you look at the pictures of the new set the platts is bigger. Don't know if they did that when doing the new set or if it was before.
If you google the new set, the daily mail had some good pics up in a story Edit to add http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz...-location.html Not saying it has more bedroom but in terms of upstairs space it looks like it is bigger That is over crowding by any standards. Why on earth can't Sarah afford rent Or at least couldn't she move in with her Gran or brother. She was living with Nick before wasn't she?ETA They must have to have a rota for use of the front room and kitchen as they couldn't all fit in either of these spaces. |
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Dave should kick the lot of them out... Gail, Sarah, Bethany, Callum Jr... Even Max and Lily if they don't start paying their way.
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Apparently (before my time) they were three beds in the terraces and an outside loo. The third bedroom was converted into a bathroom when they got indoor plumbing. I think Ken still has the outside loo in his yard. Bet that was cold on your bum on a morning.
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Dave should kick the lot of them out... Gail, Sarah, Bethany, Callum Jr... Even Max and Lily if they don't start paying their way.
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David and Lily in the annex. Gail in one room. Max in second room. Sarah, Bethany and Harry in the third.
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David and Lily in the annex. Gail in one room. Max in second room. Sarah, Bethany and Harry in the third.
Does Lilly share the double bed with David There is no other bed in there and if so where did she sleep when Kylie was still around? I must say it is definitely about time Sarah got her own gaff The 3 of them in 1 room can't be right.
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Apparently (before my time) they were three beds in the terraces and an outside loo. The third bedroom was converted into a bathroom when they got indoor plumbing. I think Ken still has the outside loo in his yard. Bet that was cold on your bum on a morning.
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When Corrie started in 1960, the only home with a fitted bathroom was the Rovers. All of the other houses had three bedrooms upstairs but as you've said, gradually converted the third room into a bathroom. By 1962 the Barlows had a bathroom upstairs but it wasn't until the early 70s that Elsie Tanner installed a bathroom at No.11 (it was pink and black!)
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It's hard to believe that not long before I was born people had to go outside for a wee and had a bath in front of the fire. I'm from the north east so heard all the tin bath stories when I was little as there were miners in the family many years ago. The Barlows must have been posh then getting their inside plumbing done so early.
![]() These are my estimations of when each house converted the third bedroom into a bathroom: No.1 - unknown No.3 - c.1962 No.5 - 1976 No.7 - collapsed in 1965, reconstructed in 1982. No.9 - possibly 1965 by Ken and Val No.11 - 1972/73 No.13 - 1963 (installed by Jerry and Myra Booth) |
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I don't think the bedrooms at that small. The house is near enough twice the size of the nazirs and sallys and has space over the garage.
But yes ppl do live like that. Not everyone lives in council houses and can just demand more space when they want |
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Yes, that's what happens in council houses. There are so many of them to go round you just get given a mansion as soon as you ask for it.
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I'm from the north east too and sometimes find it hard to believe that even within my lifetime (and I was born in the 80s) some people still didn't have indoor bathrooms. There's an urban legend in my town that one old lady lived without running water until well into the 1990s
![]() These are my estimations of when each house converted the third bedroom into a bathroom: No.1 - unknown No.3 - c.1962 No.5 - 1976 No.7 - collapsed in 1965, reconstructed in 1982. No.9 - possibly 1965 by Ken and Val No.11 - 1972/73 No.13 - 1963 (installed by Jerry and Myra Booth)
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Does Lilly share the double bed with David There is no other bed in there and if so where did she sleep when Kylie was still around? I must say it is definitely about time Sarah got her own gaff The 3 of them in 1 room can't be right.He wouldn't let Max have to sleep with a toddler, not with his ADHD. It wouldn't be fair to ask Sarah to look after both Harry and Lily through the night. Gail would probably volunteer to share a room with Lily but I think David would prefer to be close to his daughter. |
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. Our old house had a box room and barely had room for a single bed never mind a bunk bed for two kids and all of their stuff.


Or at least couldn't she move in with her Gran or brother. She was living with Nick before wasn't she?
The 3 of them in 1 room can't be right.