Guy King wrote:
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Seemingly having a "Ventilated food cupboard" was part of the criteria
used to decide whether a house was fit for habitation during the slum
clearances.

My house built 1976 had one.

This estate of around a thousand houses was built in the late 60s early
70s and none have one.

Post the advent of the REFRIGERATOR these were deemed less necessary.