Ming the Merciless
There is no mercy
- Location
- Inside my skull
Yes, I. made a beeline for google too 🐝
I'm sure the CC hive mind could have come up with the answer though
What is a bumble bee’s blood type? Bee positive.
Does your house have an interesting history for any reason ?
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What is a bumble bee’s blood type? Bee positive.
1947 makes it VERY special....year of my birth.
BTW.....our 1st house in 1971 was a 2 up-2 down with toilet down the yard. It was awaiting demolition so we couldn't get a mortgage. We, legally, took over the
mortgage and it cost us the princely sum of £695.00.
My wage at the time was £15.00 per week.
What job were you doing for £15 a week I was on £7:50 a week as a second year apprentice engineer. When I qualified in 1975 I was £40 a week.
Delivering coop bread, house to house, in the rough Runcorn council estates.
TBF I had just moved to Warrington in a rush as my wife wasnt well (long story) and the bread was the 1st thing I did to errhh put some bread on the table
.I had some decent jobs after that.
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Regular.Cyclist
Über Member
- Location
- South West Scotland 🏴
There is something which keeps cropping up in my social media feeds. It’s a ‘click here’ type of thing to find out who lived in your home during WW II.
Never clicked on it, and wholly expect it to be nonsense, but for me it’s easy. None of the homes I have ever lived in existed during WW II or, as in the case earlier in this thread, were animal shelters at that point in history.
Never clicked on it, and wholly expect it to be nonsense, but for me it’s easy. None of the homes I have ever lived in existed during WW II or, as in the case earlier in this thread, were animal shelters at that point in history.
PhotoNic69
Über Member
- Location
- Maximum Security Twilight Home..
Our current house has a skeleton buried in rubble under the floor boards. I don't know who he was but I put him there!
Gillstay
Veteran
The last house we had was an old school house. Not the classroom, but the house of the headmaster and the house of the teacher which had been knocked through to make one house two up two down. They were buried in the grave yard at the back.
When we cleaned off some plaster to make a repair we found a small fire place, then my Dad said `keep going !'. so we did and found it surrounded by another fireplace. He said it again, so we did and found a huge fireplace which used to have a range in it.
By then I had the measure of the room and when my dad stopped for tea I carried on and found a bread oven and a proving oven.
It went from the most boring room to the most interesting.
When we cleaned off some plaster to make a repair we found a small fire place, then my Dad said `keep going !'. so we did and found it surrounded by another fireplace. He said it again, so we did and found a huge fireplace which used to have a range in it.
By then I had the measure of the room and when my dad stopped for tea I carried on and found a bread oven and a proving oven.
It went from the most boring room to the most interesting.
Boring bungalow now, but one of my old houses, Canon Road, Ramsgate, had been virtually untouched since it waz built c1900..
Still had live gas pipes behind the plaster for wall lights!
It was originally a 3 story house but the roof got blown off by a bomb in WW2.
Soldiers were probably billeted tgere during the war as there was a shared bomb shelter from my cellar dug quite deep from the chalk foundation stretching maybe 100' and exiting, via a shaft, half way down next doors garden. They always wondered why there was a concave bit where grass didn't grow well. Turns out it was only sagging wooden planks covering the deep shaft! That be a surprise if it gave way whilst mowing the lawn!! 😋
It's the onlt house I've owned that I actually miss ☹️
Still had live gas pipes behind the plaster for wall lights!
It was originally a 3 story house but the roof got blown off by a bomb in WW2.
Soldiers were probably billeted tgere during the war as there was a shared bomb shelter from my cellar dug quite deep from the chalk foundation stretching maybe 100' and exiting, via a shaft, half way down next doors garden. They always wondered why there was a concave bit where grass didn't grow well. Turns out it was only sagging wooden planks covering the deep shaft! That be a surprise if it gave way whilst mowing the lawn!! 😋
It's the onlt house I've owned that I actually miss ☹️
Nothing special about my house apart from it being built around 1900.
It has very low ceilings and door frames and I often forget to duck resulting in a bang on the head especially after visit to the pub.
The stairs only have 10 steps to get upstairs too instead of the usual 13/15 steps.
Living by myself I often wonder about all the generations who lived here before me and the lives they led.
I sometimes imagine who was sitting in the living room listening to an old valve radio when Britain declared a state of war with Germany ,or how busy it may been here with a house full of kids at Christmas.
My ex sister in laws house was an old farm house right on the top of the Welsh border mountains.
In fact the English/Welsh border ran straight through the middle of the house.
It was strange because during lockdown and the different rules between the two countries you could have a family BBQ in the front garden but it was illegal to have one in the back garden.
It has very low ceilings and door frames and I often forget to duck resulting in a bang on the head especially after visit to the pub.
The stairs only have 10 steps to get upstairs too instead of the usual 13/15 steps.
Living by myself I often wonder about all the generations who lived here before me and the lives they led.
I sometimes imagine who was sitting in the living room listening to an old valve radio when Britain declared a state of war with Germany ,or how busy it may been here with a house full of kids at Christmas.
My ex sister in laws house was an old farm house right on the top of the Welsh border mountains.
In fact the English/Welsh border ran straight through the middle of the house.
It was strange because during lockdown and the different rules between the two countries you could have a family BBQ in the front garden but it was illegal to have one in the back garden.
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Beebo
Firm and Fruity
- Location
- Hexleybeef
This is my house £575 in 1936.
If I live here for another 10 years it will be 100 years old.
You can put 3 zeros on the end of the price tag now.
They were built as family starter homes, you have to be earning £100,000 to get a mortgage now as a first time buyer. Bonkers.
If I live here for another 10 years it will be 100 years old.
You can put 3 zeros on the end of the price tag now.
They were built as family starter homes, you have to be earning £100,000 to get a mortgage now as a first time buyer. Bonkers.
Mad Doug Biker
Banned from every bar in the Galaxy
- Location
- Craggy Island
Nothing too special, I am in a bungalow which was on the site of a big house that was destroyed during the war.
The old boundary wall still exists though...
The old boundary wall still exists though...
Mike Ayling
Guru
- Location
- Melbourne Downunda
Wonder what the interest rate was then?
PaulSB
Squire
- Location
- Chorley, Lancashire
We live in a small mill village that was built in 1845 by the Methodist family who built and founded the mill. Along with building the mill and 36 cottages, there was/is a laundry house, shop, school, reading room, chapel, sports and social club, cricket field, bowls and tennis courts. There are some allotments but their history isnt clear. I have the title deeds, maps etc going back to 1845. The mill owners also built the hall where they lived.
The school is still open and very popular, the other facility buildings have been converted to residential accommodation.
The owners maintained the village exterior, all gates, doors, windows painted the same colour etc. As a tennant one worked at the mill, was expected to attend chapel twice on Sunday, no washing hung out on Sundays, and so on. The Reading Room housed a library and upstairs a fully sprung dance floor for entertainment purposes.
The cottages vary in size, the two largest being for the mill manager and assistant manager. Of the remaining cottages one's status at the mill to determined, to an extent, the size of one's cottage.
We have a video of the village in the mid 50s/60s - I forget the exact date.
The school is still open and very popular, the other facility buildings have been converted to residential accommodation.
The owners maintained the village exterior, all gates, doors, windows painted the same colour etc. As a tennant one worked at the mill, was expected to attend chapel twice on Sunday, no washing hung out on Sundays, and so on. The Reading Room housed a library and upstairs a fully sprung dance floor for entertainment purposes.
The cottages vary in size, the two largest being for the mill manager and assistant manager. Of the remaining cottages one's status at the mill to determined, to an extent, the size of one's cottage.
We have a video of the village in the mid 50s/60s - I forget the exact date.
Drago
Legendary Member
- Location
- Suburban Poshshire
Knowing my luck Oswald mosley.
Beebo
Firm and Fruity
- Location
- Hexleybeef
2%. It was fixed in 1932 following the UK's departure from the gold standard and remained in place up to World War II.
