Does your house have an interesting history for any reason ?

[raleighnut]

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.

No Pub I notice.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Knowing my luck Oswald mosley.

@Drago I am your father…

 

[Oldhippy]

My boat used to be a hotel boat.

 

[Dogtrousers]

Knowing my luck Oswald mosley.

Slightly OT but I was searching on the newspaper archive some years ago and I found (or maybe someone posted) a small 1930s article about a fundraiser dinner dance held in a church hall near where I live for ... The British Union of Fascists.

 

[Gunk]

Our development of 12 houses which used to be a farmhouse and barns won an architectural award in 1985, the plaque is still on a shelf in next doors garage!

 

[PaulSB]

No Pub I notice.

Methodists. It's a blessing. This is a quiet pretty village with plenty of good walking routes. No one comes here other than residents and the school run. If we had a pub the place would be pandemonium.

For the locals we have the sports and social club. The prices have visitors asking "Are you sure that's right?" 👍

 

[Regular.Cyclist]

No Pub I notice.

My nearest pub will be 1.5 miles away. 2.5 miles on the way back. The difference is staggering.

 

[presta]

The last house we had was an old school house.

That reminds me, my mother used to live in the Old School House at Great Braxted, which had an interesting future about 45 years after she left: it appeared on George Clarke's Restoration Man.

Slightly OT but I was searching on the newspaper archive some years ago and I found (or maybe someone posted) a small 1930s article about a fundraiser dinner dance held in a church hall near where I live for ... The British Union of Fascists.

My father grew up in Holbeck, when he was 12 he saw the Battle of Holbeck Moor (from a safe distance).

 

[markemark]

Slightly OT but I was searching on the newspaper archive some years ago and I found (or maybe someone posted) a small 1930s article about a fundraiser dinner dance held in a church hall near where I live for ... The British Union of Fascists.

Now they’re based in Clacton…..

 

[presta]

I think I can feel a thread closure coming on.