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There are absolutely tons of regulations on new builds including minimum room sizes and insulation.

Insulation rules have gone so extreme that now it is also required to use controlled ventilation, fan systems that are on 24 hours a day designed to ventilate the whole property without causing draughts or losing significant heat. Often the kitchen and bathroom extractors are dual-purposed for this function.

Minimum size for single bedroom is 7.5m2 (averages at 8'11" square) with minimum width of 2.15m (7'0")

Minimum size for a double or twin bedroom is 11.5m2 (averages at 11' square) with minimum width of 2.55m (8'3") but at least one double bedroom has to be minimum width 2.75m (8'11").

On top of that the minimum total floor space is specified depending on the number of bedroom, number of beds and number of storeys.

A single bedroom single storey property has to have a minimum total floorspace of 39m2 (averages at 20'4" square) or 37m2 if it has a shower room instead of a bathroom.

A three bedroom (2 doubles, one single) two storey property requires at least 93m2.

Cavity wall insulation makes an enormous difference, the property we are in now (1980's) was retro-fitted and uses about a quarter of the heating of our previous property (1880's) despite us now having all the window vents open all year. Floor insulation, cavity insulation and loft insulation to very high standards are compulsory on new builds Part of the insulation standards is to reduce the increased tendency for air conditioner use in summer, guidelines are now to keep your windows shut in hot weather, keep the heat out.

You have the correct address, according to the Probate she died on the 7th August 1948.
Mentioned is Colonel George Noel Humphreys, HM Army, born, Cork. He married Hilda Coppinger, born, Ireland.
Names to keep on file for further use.

The problem with that time period, no reasons had to be given to move between England and Ireland or vice versa, no passenger records were recorded or kept, it was like moving from one town to the next. To cross the Irish sea, you bought a ticket and off you went, similar to getting a ferry across the Mersey.

My great-great-grandfather James Smith and his second wife Mary Mills married in Birkenhead in 1882.
The bride and groom give addresses as: 1 Campbell Terrace and 2 Campbell Terrace.
So he married the woman next door - and she was in the same house as your relative occupied 20 years later.
He was a widower with five children; she was a spinster.
Campbell Terrace Birkenhead isn't there now; old maps show it off Back Camden Street which went between Conway Street and Claughton Road, where the Birkenhead Bus station is now.

I worked in Micro-Snips from 1988 to when it closed.
Started out in Wallasey running the Mail Order department with owner Paul Zabludow's wife (Gloria) and then eventually managed the Birkenhead shop until closure in 1994. We briefly had a store in West Kirby for a year or two and also one by St James Church (only lasted a year, if that) That was the golden age of computing!
Ended up working for GAME and running their Chester and Birkenhead stores for 5 years before ditching retail (weekend work is a pain when you have kids) and I've been in IT ever since.

This is uncanny.
15 years later I am doing the same thing.
My Great grandfather Emmanuel is one of the lame boot repairers / cobblers!

I wonder whether you uncovered any additional information?