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36. This is ‘Whiskey’, the last of the spit-dogs. Specially bred, with long bodies and short legs, spit-dogs ran inside a small treadmill which revolved a roasting spit over a fire.

37. The kitchen at the Carlyles’ house in Chelsea, both bedroom and workplace for their cook. Dank, dark and gas-lit, the Victorian kitchen crammed into the basement of a tall terraced house seemed worlds away from the airy drawing room above.

38. A 1930s refrigerator party. Fridge owners invited guests to novelty meals consisting entirely of cold food (and cocktails).

39. The ‘English Rose’ kitchen (top right), designed immediately after the Second World War, was intended to use up stock-piled aluminium set aside for the building of Spitfires.

40. ‘Back-to-back’ houses. More houses backed onto these street-facing ones, surrounding a courtyard that contained everyone’s shared privies and the ‘brewhouse’ or laundry house.

41. Beddington Zero Energy Development (BedZED) in Surrey contains houses designed to minimise the use of heat and water. The ‘chimneys’ on the roof are for ventilation and heat exchange, rather than for burning fossil fuels.

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