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Sue, new thread on here now!!

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Sue, new thread on here now!!

I could add to those tho Susan, as I had some rubbish work people in my house, hence my heating problems etc.
Lizx

Maybe a good title for a thread Maggie.....About really old houses and their owners...... Can't think of a good heading at the mo......will leave it to you.......It is really interesting researching ones house owners....well.... mine anyway......Maybe I will tell what I have discovered....who knows :-)))))


PS.....have had newer houses with interesting stories too......so maybe it will appeal to all house owners/letters/dwellers/renters


Susan
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Lol Liz

Just read your post...must have posted at the same time......You and me both......I have horrific Building stories too Lol

Susan
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My house was built in 1890. I know the names of two people who lived there most recently, ie. just before me moving in, Sept 1987.
When I first lived there, I looked after a woman's little girl after school. It turned out this woman's uncle had lived there once, in the 1950's, bet it was him who put the hardboard over all the pine doors and fitted the bodged up cupboards lol
Can't find anything out by googling tho.
Lizx

What a great story Sue.

The person who lives in my dads old house thinks that it was built in around 1869, so also an old house. My dad remembers it being bombed in the second world war. He remembers waking up and seeing stars through the hole in the roof!!

I do have the deeds for my house, but unfortunately it was built in the 1960s!

I don't know if this is anyhing to do with this thread but it did put me in mind of the following.......

I had my curtilage renewed by a local block paving company and while they put in new paving bricks they/we discovered a well...... and I also decided to do the Family History of the person in charge......It transpired that his Great...maybe GGreat Grandfather had lodged at the house and had died by drowning in the well when coming home inebriated one summer evening in abt 1890. He was abt 85 and had lived a full life......but after getting over the coincidence the company/owner was tickled pink that he was part of the discovery.

I own a very old house and the history of it and the people who lived here is facinating...well worth the effort of looking into

Susan
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Strange thing is, the man who lives there now used to live in the same town as me and his parents still live here. But we live 23 miles away from dad's old house!!

very good advice Maggie, cos who knows what to-morrow will bring.
Glad you recieved some lovely photos though!
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I went into our local research library to find out who lived in our house, 1901 -he was a Wholesale Wine and Spirit Merchant and my hubby used to work in the whisky trade--spooky

Hello Maggie hun,


Good advice and a big hug from me,


Caz xxx

....... a few months ago I typed the name of my dad's old house into google. It brought up the name of the man who lives there, and looks like he runs a business from there. I decided last week to email him and tonight he's sent me some lovely photos. Just wish that I'd contacted him while my dad was still here.

Let that be a warning to us all, don't think about it, do it!!