The fact that the one room flats were considered a significant improvement says a lot about how people used to live. (In some cases, seven people were sharing rooms about the size of my bedroom, heated by the cooking stove). They did have one improvement...dry toilets in the basement, not the yard.
Most of this style of housing is gone, but the fact that this row has been preserved, with rooms furnished as examples of specific families (with details of who they were. In two cases, the contents of the room were donated by the previous inhabitants or their estate).
Just a fascinating little museum for the social historians amongst us that I suspect a lot of people miss.
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