PS, we also had electric lighting and a cooker but when we moved in there was no plumbing for a washing machine so I had to hand-wash to start with.
Later we got a washing machine and had to put the back tube into a big bucket when it was 'on'. On several ocassions, it came free from the bucket and flooded the kitchen. After about the 3rd or 4th flood, our landlady paid for the plumbing to be put in so we could connect up the washing machine properly.
The coal fire in the front room was also converted to a gas fire prior to us moving in, which was our only source of heat.
We sometimes put the cooker on in the kitchen and stayed in there if it got too cold.
