At this time there were three houses all grouped together, ours, his mothers (to the right) and a small house between our front garden and the road which housed two old tailors, one with a wooden leg. Talking over the history, apparently the shed with the green corrugated roof in this picture was also originally a house, plus there were a further two houses close to where our shed now is (one behind the shed on what is now our land and one on the other side of the wall).
The house in front of our garden is now completely gone as the owner took the rubble away for building materials some years ago. The buildings across the road are still mostly there though, just surrounded by trees.