Yep. Many British houses built before the 1960s were designed with relatively large gardens to support household food production, particularly from the Victorian period through the interwar years, when self-sufficiency and home growing were common. this was reinforced by policy after World War I, especially under the Housing Act 1919, which funded large-scale council housebuilding with generous plots as part of the “homes fit for heroes” programme, often explicitly intended to improve health and allow space for growing vegetables. Land was cheaper, planning restrictions were fewer, so speculative builders made the most of it. Adding a large garden was cheap, and made a house more attractive to buyers. It contributed to urban sprawl, which led to green belt protections being introduced in 1938 and later in 1955.

post-1960s housing was shaped by higher land values, increased urban density, and planning approaches under laws such as the Town and Country Planning Act 1947—generally resulted in smaller gardens and less emphasis on domestic food production. Supermarkets were becoming the norm (the first Sainsbury's supermarket having opened in Croydon in 1950).