The "luxury" cabin proves to be rather less luxurious than expected, with no inside toilet (which instead is a fair walk away in the dark) and minimal facilities.

But, as there were just the three of us to share it, and we had the luxury of an inside toilet, we were considered lucky.

Houses with inside toilets, it seems, are usually in areas of pre-1914 terraced housing, in which the problem is most common.

In 1960, 14% of British households had no inside toilet, while in 1967 22% of all homes had no basic hot water supply.

Generally built to replace run-down terraced housing, the new designs included not only modern improvements such as inside toilets, but also shops and other community facilities within high-rise blocks.

In 1954 savings were sunk in buying a "room and kitchen with scullery" ; it had no bathroom, but there was an inside toilet, and it was a better area.

Not all homes had an inside toilet.

His vision was that every house would have an inside toilet and at least a quarter of an acre of garden.

Well, for a start each flat did have an inside toilet; also, each storey had only two families, that is, two to each of the three landings.

This was replaced in the 1960s with an "inside toilet" being constructed on the balcony on the east side.