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A bedsit, also known as a bed-sitting room, is a form of rented accommodation common in Great Britain consisting of a single room with a shared bathroom and lavatory; they are part of a legal category of dwellings referred to as Houses in multiple occupation. In some cases the room has a small formal kitchen area but it is common for the tenants to have no more than an electric kettle and single electric ring. Image File history File links Question_book-3. ... Houses in multiple occupation is a British English term which refers to residential property where ‘common areas’ exist and are shared by more than one household. ... A kettle is a kitchenware piece. ... An electric cooker is an electric powered cooking device. ...

Bedsits arose from the subdivision of larger dwellings into small low-cost accommodations at low conversion cost. In the UK a growing desire for personal independence after World War II led to a reduced demand for traditional boarding houses with communal dining. Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tōjō Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000...

Bedsits sometimes provide the setting for television situation comedies such as Rising Damp, because they offer restricted sets that reduce production costs, and force a greater interaction between tenants and/or landlord in communal areas. This article is about a genre of comedy. ... Rising Damp was a UK television sitcom produced by Yorkshire Television for ITV, first broadcast from 1974 to 1978. ...

In Australia, a bedsit is called a flatette; it lacks the overtones of poverty associated with the English word. An Australian flatette is a single room apartment, equipped with a bed and a small kitchen. The shared lavatory and bathroom are situated on the corridor. This article does not cite any references or sources. ...

The American equivalent to a bedsit is a rooming house. The American studio apartment is a one room apartment with a small adjoining kitchen and a private bathroom. A bedsit can also be compared to a Soviet communal apartment, in which a common kitchen, bathroom, toilet, and telephone are shared by several families, each of which lives in a single room opening up onto a common hallway. Boarding House is a privately owned house,in which individuals or families on vaccation, holidays, deputition,transfered on temporary duties, on some particular training,short&mediun tenure visitors,working professionals & lodgers,rent one or more rooms sets for one or more nights,sometimes for extended periods of weeks, months and... Studio apartments are small, single-level living quarters intended for use by an individual. ... Soviet redirects here. ...

Bedsits are often associated with poor people, and are referenced this way in "Nights in White Satin" by The Moody Blues: "bedsitter people look back and lament/on another day's useless energy spent". However, if someone lives in a different town from the one in which they work, they may rent a bedsit at low cost to avoid driving many miles to and from work each day. This is quite common in the modern day. Nights in White Satin is a 1967 song by The Moody Blues, first featured on the album Days of Future Passed. ... The Moody Blues are a British rock band originally from Birmingham, England. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with rental agreement. ...

As lived in by well known Spursforum poster Orpington Spur. His doesn't even have a chair mind, and does smell of soiled underwear, pot noodles and decomposing corpses.