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Your house......
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MaggyfromWestYorkshire | Report | 16 Jul 2008 16:31 |
.....what do you know about it's history? |
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♥ Kitty the Rubbish Cook ♥ | Report | 16 Jul 2008 16:40 |
Sadly not a very interesting one..............we moved here when it was new in the 70's. |
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MaggyfromWestYorkshire | Report | 16 Jul 2008 16:47 |
I've just been in touch with the man who owns my dads old house. It was apparently built in 1869 and was the game keepers cottage to an old stately home. |
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Gwyn in Kent | Report | 16 Jul 2008 16:48 |
Our's isn't that old, 1960s, with no interesting history. |
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Shirley~I,m getting the hang of it | Report | 16 Jul 2008 17:04 |
Same here,in Kent, with a house with no history we moved here in 1967 and it was a new build. The land it was built on was developed as a new estate from a previous pig farm we were told . |
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Devon Dweller | Report | 16 Jul 2008 17:26 |
Ive traced mine and my sisters house back to 1841. Mine was a bakery and nothing much interesting happened but my sisters had a rather large family all squished into a little cottage. By 1871/81 the kids all grown up and left home and the father died around 1891 leaving the mother a widow ...... she was living in a shop doorway which could very easily have been my house!!! :( |
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Harpstrings | Report | 16 Jul 2008 18:34 |
My house used to be council owned and my grandparents rented it and my mother grew up and got married from it. I moved in with my grandparents when I was 18, sadly my grandfather died a few months after I moved in, my grandmother outlived him by another 10 years which is when I bought it from the council after she died. OH and I now own it completely. |
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**Toothfairy* | Report | 16 Jul 2008 18:39 |
My house was built in the late 30s. It was terraced housing built for the workers of (i think) Kirkstall forge - although my neighbour who grew up in her house- said her father worked the local quarry. It has a beautiful big church next door but one and used to back onto some beautiful woods.. |
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maggiewinchester | Report | 16 Jul 2008 19:01 |
My house is a council build, built in the 1930's. The original tenant came to visit me about 15 years ago!! |
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Anne | Report | 16 Jul 2008 19:28 |
The house I lived in as a child was a listed building in Kent, it had a priest's hole and secret passage |
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MaggyfromWestYorkshire | Report | 16 Jul 2008 19:54 |
My dads old house was bombed in the second world war. He remembered waking up and seeing the stars through the hole in the roof! Luckily no-one was hurt and the house wasn't too badly damaged. |
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MayBlossomEmpressofSpring | Report | 16 Jul 2008 20:40 |
Our cottage is a listed property built c 1745 to house workers from the local dye mill, all natural dyes and the dye vats are still in situe down the lane and were excavated a few years ago by archiologists from Manchester University. As time went on travelling weavers, some from France were housed in the cottages and Oh found a penny dated1700 when decorating under the stairs. it was bent and he took it to a coin dealer who told us it was a gypsy wedding coin. I traced the resident of this cottage back to 1871 and just five families have lived here including us since then. they are rented and the family who own them inherited them from a spinster lady who also owned most of the villiage, the three sisters who inherited used to collect the rents in the villiage for her and they also inherited the cottages in the village, around 100 to 150 of them, they were able to sell the village property but had to agree that Summerbottom where I live would remain in their family. There are nine cottages with what was a weaving room above seven of them, ours and next door have individual top floors, three storeys in total with loft space above, stone walls and like paving stone roof, original beams and fireplace both excavated by OH when we moved in they had been covered over when someone had tried to "modernise", no back door or back garden just open embankment but ninety foot of garden at front. We love every inch of it. |
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Janet 693215 | Report | 16 Jul 2008 21:24 |
In an effort to get OH interested in history (esp. dead rellies) I started investigating our house. I took him to the local archives, showed him photos of our house in the 20's and tried to get him involved in the detective work. |
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Harpstrings | Report | 16 Jul 2008 21:30 |
Gosh some of you have some wonderful history to tell about your homes. |
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Cumbrian Caz~**~ | Report | 16 Jul 2008 21:36 |
Hi Maggie hun, |
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Sally Moonchild | Report | 16 Jul 2008 21:37 |
Not much of a history to ours......it is a self-build, built by Fred, the previous owner who was the brickie for the group.....Ron next door was the plasterer, Colin was another builder, and Johnnie who lived behind was the plumber and electrician.... |
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ChrisofWessex | Report | 16 Jul 2008 21:37 |
prior to this house (built mid sixties in what was very pretty woodland apparently) we lived in thatched cottage - prior to us OH's parents owned it - it was originally the village school until about 1890 and was built about mid 18th century which explained the strange layout - the walls were of chalk and flint. |
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Sally Moonchild | Report | 16 Jul 2008 21:48 |
We lived in a maisonette in London......the top two floors of an old London house, built in 1839 it is Grade II listed.......it had elaborate cornices with cherubs......ornate roses and a big white marble fireplace.......the landing window was huge and was stained glass.......it was painted half brown and half cream, or half cream and half green.......it was old, battered......downstairs flat where the landlady lived there was the living room, her bedroom with double doors leading onto the garden, a kitchen a scullery a boot room and the downstairs toilet.......we had a kitchen with a range, one stone sink, one cold tap, a gas cooker on legs.....large living room with two huge sash windows......on the next floor there were two big bedrooms, the front one had two sash windows and the back one had a sash window.....cupboards were built in beside the fireplaces in the bedrooms...... |