Explore these jaw-dropping vintage images of British homes through the ages. From the earliest archive images of a country ...

Preserved when Lillicrapps Court, one of the last 'slum' courts in Okehampton, Devon, was demolished in the 1960's, it is believed to have been used communally by five families.

They live in houses which were built for gentlefolk in the eighteenth century. They are totally unsuitable, and the sanitary arrangements are practically nil.’ ‘It is a town which is a ...