The house at the end of 3rd Lane served as a kitchen and incorporated a mud brick sealing wall. While the kitchen initially used firewood, later kerosene was used instead. The kitchen doors in the kitchen were a pair of swing doors his family members used for cover when taking baths by hiding in the corner behind them. The houses at 3rd Lane and 5th Lane both had a cockloft. In the 3rd Lane house, this area was used for storage, while Ng Yiu Fai’s parents slept in the room downstairs. Ng Yiu Fai, his two brothers and grandmother, all lived in the 5th Lane house. Here, the three brothers slept in the cockloft while grandma slept downstairs. When his younger aunt returned to live in the village, the old lady began sleeping on the bed in the cockloft and the three brothers slept on the floor. As none of the three ancestral houses had a toilet, Ng Yiu Fai mostly used public facilities in Tung Tau Resettlement Estate. There was, however, a toilet jar inside the family’s home and every evening someone called round to collect what was then called “night soil”. The whole family ate at the larger 3rd Lane house, getting their meals from the kitchen at the end of the lane. Ng Yiu Fai thought that the living environment in his childhood was acceptable, though incomparable to that of those who lived in bigger buildings.