Does your house have an interesting history for any reason ?

[Dave7]

My house is one of 10 red brick houses that, pre 1980 were for RAF officers houses as the whole surrounding area was RAF Padgate.... it was big!!.
Before and during the war thousands of soldiers trained there**. As a little girl my wife could look out of her window and watch soldiers wearing gas masks as they crawled through 'gas huts'
The whole area apart from the 10 houses is now a huge housing estate.
I attach a map of the area when it was a camp.
In portrait, if you look top left you can see "10 officers houses" while over to the right you can see Fairbrother Crescent where my wife lived as a little girl......right up till we got married.
**Bob Monkhouse and Bruce Forcythe were 2 that trained there.

 

[markemark]

Nothing interesting at all but my wife looked into the first owners and their family and found out who they were, what they did and that they're buried in the local cemetery.

Nothing of any interest to anyone but we found it interesting to know a little about the life of the people who first lived in what is now our house.

 

[Drago]

The house itself, nope.

But it's notable for 3 reasons:

A public footpath runs through my living room and back garden - the RoW is currently suspended pending the Carncil doing the paperwork to re-route it.

This corner is the site of an ancient bronze age settlement.

I live in it. I'm waiting for English Haemhorroid to pop round with a blue plaque.

 

[Dave7]

Nothing interesting at all but my wife looked into the first owners and their family and found out who they were, what they did and that they're buried in the local cemetery.

Nothing of any interest to anyone but we found it interesting to know a little about the life of the people who first lived in what is now our house.

What year(ish) would that be ? I often look at houses which have character and wonder "who 1st lived there".
Mine must have housed many different officers. The MOD sold them off C1980 and a couple bought it, botched it up big style then part exed it to Bovis who sold it to us.

 

[Dave7]

The house itself, nope.

But it's notable for 3 reasons:

A public footpath runs through my living room and back garden - the RoW is currently suspended pending the Carncil doing the paperwork to re-route it.

This corner is the site of an ancient bronze age settlement.

I live in it. I'm waiting for English Haemhorroid to pop round with a blue plaque.

A plaque in the shape of a pair of y fronts ? Interesting.

 

[markemark]

What year(ish) would that be ? I often look at houses which have character and wonder "who 1st lived there".
Mine must have housed many different officers. The MOD sold them off C1980 and a couple bought it, botched it up big style then part exed it to Bovis who sold it to us.

That was one of the vaguely interesting things to us as we thought it was c1930 but turns out it was 1905(ish).

 

[DCLane]

My parents' old house - which was an 18th c. hunting lodge turned into a B&B - in Horton-in-Ribblesdale had the only bee boles built into a wall in Yorkshire, together with there being a working triple George III toilet in the barn. The new owners took that out.

My current house is on an old baseball ground for the Dewsbury professional baseball squad in 1936. Not 1935, or 1937, but for one year only.

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

At one point when I was in my late teens the house we lived in - and I grew up in - needed a new roof

My Dad was looking for way of doing it without paying too much and went to the local libarry to check for grants that were available

He discovered that if the house was built pre-1900 then you could get a grant
so next he had to find out when the house was built

The deeds were either lost - probably during the war - or just generally lost
but he did find out that it suffered bomb damage during WW2 - which explained why the bricks and general building standards on one side were rubbish and the rest of the house was much much better


but that didn;t help

so he went to the main library in Birkenhead and the librarian pointed him to some old maps of Moreton

He eventually found a map produced before the current embankment was built which showed the max high tide mark in Moreton was around the roundabout
(Dave will remember it as Moreton Cross!)

which was less than 100 yards from our old house - and out house was also marked as above the high tide line

which proved the house was built before 1900 - which was enough but we still had no idea when

 

[Ming the Merciless]

bee boles

Well there is something I hadn't heard of before.

 

[Webbo2]

Our house was originally part of the local blacksmiths forge, next door which was part of same building in the 1700’s still has the old forge in it. It later became a pub then a restaurant before being completely renovated 11 years ago and turned in to 2 houses.

 

[fossyant]

Nothing interesting other than in the surrounding area there was a steel works and a wallpaper factory. Where our house is, was a field with goats on it. My mum used to work in the wallpaper factory - it's all houses now that lead to ours.

 

[Dave7]

Well there is something I hadn't heard of before.

I had to google it.

 

[Bonefish Blues]

We're part of a little road built on the old grounds of a manor house so we have some rather lovely brick and stone walls juxtaposing a very ordinary 1970 house, much faffed around with since.

https://strattonaudleyparishcouncil.gov.uk/the-village/history/

 

[dicko]

We bought an end of terrace house in Derby for my son. The deeds go back to when it was built in 1899 and they tell a tale of the folks that lived in the house, paper after paper of interesting facts all documenting its heritage.
My son is slowly trawling through the documents I will have to ask him what he has found so far. Our solicitor was awestruck with all the info passed onto me at completion.

 

[Dogtrousers]

No. Not at all.

The nearest I can get to interesting (not very near) is that not far from where I live there is a place where there isn't a road. But there is a road on a Bartholomew's map from the 30s. I think that the developers changed their minds about a planned road. It could be one of those cartographic deliberate errors, but I don't think so. It looks very much like they did plan a road there.

The house I used to live in was damaged by a V1 bomb that levelled some nearby houses.