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.

 

[Andy in Germany]

Mine is a timber framed house which was built in to the side of the hill "Somewhere between 1890 and 1910" and added to and extended in all kinds of directions including up the hillside. My flat includes one room that has no windows because the only outside wall has a barn leaning up against it, and is accessed via a walk-in wardrobe. My Daughter calls it the "Narnia Room". I'm told the ground floor used to house a bank, and the front door has a metal serpent wound around a bar, so I suspect it was a doctors house before that.

It's also one of several houses in the village with a piece of poetry painted on the wall:

Roughly translated from the local dialect it says:

"This house is mine, and yet not mine;
Who lived before thought it was his.
He moved out and I moved in.
After my death, it will be the same."

The house on the edge of the picture has been lived in by the same family since the middle ages according to a mural on the wall.

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!

I know a very old house in a village near here which has half the cellar sealed off, and if you look through one of the tiny windows on that side of the house you can see what appears to be a grave in the middle of the floor.

 

[Andy in Germany]

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!

Oh dear, it's that bad?

 

[Gunk]

Oh dear, it's that bad?

It’s all pretty inoffensive, nice thing is that every house is different. Must be OK we’ve lived here 23 years now.

 

[Veronese68]

Yesterday was the 30th anniversary of moving into this house. Today is the 30th anniversary of me nearly knocking my head off due to a broken garage door 🙄 One of the arms holding the door got left behind as I opened it. I leant forward to try and see what was going on when said arm decided to join the rest of the door. Those big springs will propel an unloaded arm with considerable energy, hitting me on the forehead as it went. Still have quite an impressive scar, but the wrinkles hide it better now.

 

[Emanresu]

It’s all pretty inoffensive, nice thing is that every house is different. Must be OK we’ve lived here 23 years now.

Are you Postman Pat?