The house consisted of two rooms, and was inhabited by two families and a lodger.
At the same time, there was a greater readiness to shelter old women in family arrangements to avoid seeing them live as borders or lodgers.
Inhyses were landless dependent people whose status was very much the same as that of a lodger or a cottar.
Some could also be worker families who lived as inmates (lodgers) and paid rent in some form.
Additional sources of income were required, and these included contributions by women through in-migration of their relations and sub-letting accommodation to lodgers.
At the end of the 1940s, every sixth person in an old people's home was such a lodger.
There were no lodgers in any of the households for which rent information was available.
This mobility generally made it easier for outsiders or lodgers to acquire a house.
