On 24/02/2018 14:52, Max Demian wrote:

"All electric" houses were the vogue from the 30s. Then they got their
first electric bill.

In the 60s newly built houses just had a coal fire in the main living
room and that was it.


I thought central heating was the norm in the 60s, even if just in a
basic form.


I lived in a 1950's built house (probably mid 50s) as a child and it has
a coal fire in the sitting room which heated the hot water and two
radiators- one in the main bedroom and one in the kitchen. The second
bedroom was unheated.

We moved to a 3 bedroom version, of similar vintage, which had similar
heating arrangements.

Then to a flat built in 1967 or so and it had electric under floor
heating in the sitting room and hall.

I recall some houses being built near us in the 1960s which had central
heating- blown hot air- and even cavity insulation via polystyene sheet,
bits of it used to blow around the area.