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this site is a great for searching where your old relies used to live

Looked at our road, it was filmed when we were away on holiday, neighbours have a skip on their drive and their car on our drive (luckily with our agreement) and the wheelie bins and recycling boxes are out so the street looks scruffy.

Lol I have just swanned back to the village I grew up in, our house hasn't changed much but the village certainly has.

Nina when did it get so big, ??

I also went to visit Grams and the Great Aunts ...

LOL.......I 'm really enjoying reading all this. We sound like a bunch of " virtual Salmon " swimming back to the places we where spawned.....lol

I've been " back " to look at the house I grew up in and the one I was born in in Waltham Cross .

I've been to look at the place we are going on holiday to next month in Anglesey ( daughter made me stop that as she didn't want to ruin the suprise of seeing a new place with out actually being there .....lol ) .

I think Google maps is wonderful : )))

Rose
You seem really pleased.
I hope you enjoyed your walk in Wales.
I walked round the little village in Glamorgan, where my grandmother lived, then followed the lanes we used to walk ( so narrow! ) towards the beach.
Isn't it great?


Gwyn

I've found a few places that don't seem to be covered but am so chuffed cos I just saw my Auntie Bella walking back home from the shop on it lol

I take it back! i have just 'walked'down the road that I lived in when I was 5...the house is unchanged, except that the front garden is not so neat...but everything else is instantly recognisable :)) it is in Wales and the stream where I paddled and the farm where my friend lived are as i remember, fields and sheep in front and woods behind :))

Does anyone know if there is a way to keep a photograph of a place you find, I did it with copy and pasting screen view, but really just wanted the picture, as a save image kind of thing. Thanks

Marilyn

Not sure how I'd feel, but have just been to visit my birthplace in Hampshire. Until Mum died in 2006 it had been lived in since new (1937) by our family.
The front garden looks a mess, but I know the lovely chap who bought it had underground water pipe problems, so I expect it is tidier now..... Bungalow looks cared for....That's nice.

I've also 'visited' Wales this morning.
What memories !

Gwyn

Just browsing around and my school's gone! The whole lot's been pulled down and a new housing estate being built. It was only built in the 50s with a second block added in the 70s while I was there.....

That was a shock! LOL

i wish I hadn't looked :( I can see two of my old homes...as they were a couple of years ago, which is not as I know them to be now...it is sad to think that what was, is no longer ...

lol cheerful ain't I !

xx

LOL Nina.

I had an email from my cousin telling me she liked out new parking area...she had been looking at my house as I was looking at hers lol

Hi all again, you lot are lucky,the view of my back garden sports a lineful of my knickers,gently blowing in the wind.

I've been visiting family and friends....just nosing in their windows lol

I'm just working my way through my address book lolol

I can see one of my dogs sitting on the living room table......lol

And one of the cats sunning himself on the gas meter box : ))

My garden looks lovely.

I think I've been air- brushed away...
* sigh of relief*

I know the Google car went by last summer when I'd just popped out to the bin after grovelling around sorting cupboards and hunting for something O.H had lost.
I wouldn't want you all to see my baggy-kneed trousers !

I can see me spending alot of time on that site........

Gwyn

lol Carole!

I know our filming was on a Monday (dustbin day), later summer as the Black Eyed Susan is flowering and the front bushes need trimming back from the wall.

It has also reminded me of a large dead branch on a tree in the front. It looks most odd with no leaves when the rest is very green. I will have to get my bow saw out!

My neighbour Marjorie has gone without bread with her chips tonight after seeing herself on street map earlier on today!! Carole Manchester.