It's not surprising that my Grandma was horrified when her daughter and new husband bought this cottage in 1952 for £500.
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Front of the cottage, with my Grandad - centre- but even with a magnifier I can't tell who it is sitting on the step
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My dad (real Dad) and his brother (later my Step Dad) had just started a builders business and the land at the back was ideal for their new business. Room for sheds and heaps of bricks.
What a shock to everyone when my real dad was killed in a motorbike accident a couple of years later.
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| The lean-to kitchen out the back |
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| The old lean-to kitchen was replaced with this kitchen on the left and bathroom to the right. It must have been wonderful for my Mum after a few years with an outside bucket and chuck it privie and a tin bath in the kitchen. |
Years later you can imagine the 'treasure' we dug up in the land behind the house, after those cottages had been cleared. With six families burying their rubbish - before rubbish collection was invented. There were bits of clay pipes and broken pottery, old bottles and if we were lucky the marbles from Codswallop bottles.
( just a PS edited in to say thank you for all the comments about doing the washing yesterday, apologies for not replying. Seems no one likes those scent boosters - so I wonder who is buying them?)
What a fascinating post, thank you.
ReplyDeleteI have so many old photos and it's nice to share some.
Delete1952 - the year I was born! Fascinating photographs, thanks for sharing them and their story. xx
ReplyDeleteI'm glad they took photos back then, my mum had a little camera shaped like a box for years
DeleteAmazing photographs of your old home, I've visited mine here having moved back to live here.
ReplyDeleteMy dad built 4 houses in the builders yard before he retired and they lived in one until they died. The original house was up for sale last year and I had a photo on here I think. It's only about 10 miles from where I am now
DeleteWhat wonderful photos, well they could definitely add value to that house couldn't they!! But at £500 it seems quite expensive. My Nana bought her 3 bed semi with a back garden and a tiny front garden for £950 in 1959. I guess the acre of land and the vegetable patch would have added value to the cottage though. As you can imagine there has been a lot of going through old photos in my house too. Almost too many trips down memory lane.
ReplyDeleteWhat a wreck it was, wattle and daub and built in the 1700's.
DeleteI have so many old photos and it's nice to have somewhere to show them
What a wonderful slice of your history today and it was a privilege to see the photos. Catriona
ReplyDeleteIt's good to have somewhere to show them , old photos are always fun to see
DeleteThank you for sharing the old photos. It's hard to imagine anyone wanting to buy the old house, there was so much work to be done. You were a very cute baby :)
ReplyDeleteWhat a wonderful property for anyone prepared to put in the work.
ReplyDeleteA great set of photos from your past, it is a good thing to make an internet connection to them
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