kiwi wrote:ENID STREET 1939.
"In the home of Mr. A. Clark: Rats, gnawing holes in the floorboards, make off with whole bars of soap. and steal lunch-packets out of the men's coats if they leave them hanging on the walls.
UNBEATABLE BEETLES
The kitchen is a black rectangle below ground level. A small pool of daylight falls through a grating into an area about the size of a large meat safe. On the floor of this area is an open drain. THAT IS THE SINK. Trains passing over a viaduct a few feet away shake the house until the china on the dresser rattles. Upstairs, mice are eating away the damp wallpaper, and when it rains at night in the top back room they cannot turn on the light because the water runs through the roof and down the electric wire flex to cause short circuits."