NY formulated on Wednesday :
It's amazing that I didn't get more problems with dust on the negatives
leaving white specks on the prints, since my darkroom was up in the loft and
there was dust and glass wool insulation fibres around. There wasn't enough
headroom to put the enlarger on a table so I kneeled on a bit of rubber
underfelt on the floorboards with the enlarger on the floor next to me and
the dev/wash/fix trays next to me and the safelight fastened to one the
rafters above my head. It all sounds very primitive.

My own dark room, in the late 50's early 60's, was - a homemade table,
4'x 6' with hardboard top in the loft for my train set. I turned the
table upright, so it sat on its 4' side against a corner. I then filled
in the open top and side with scrounged card board pinned on. For the
enlarger, I wired up a mechanical seconds timer, picked up in a surplus
shop.

I also set up some a pair of photoflood lamps, so that I could connect
them in series or parallel, dim/bright. I was hopeless at the
photography side, but enjoyed the tech side, the printing and
developing.

I only managed to once use my photoflood lights, by persuading one of
my sisters female friends to pose (innocently) for a photo, whom I had
a bit of a crush for.