Does your house have an interesting history for any reason ?

[Gunk]

Are you Postman Pat?

He always parks outside our house and does his rounds, we’ve got to know him quite well over the years. Lets us know when we’ve left the key in door overnight or left the car unlocked with the window down!

 

[Ian H]

When I was married we had a bungalow that was self-built in 1927 on part of the old fair field. The parish council divided the ground into strips and gave each strip
to a 'deserving' parishioner on condition they built a serviceable residence within five years. The council even advanced a £500 to each parishioner.
E & I live a few miles away in a house built by Samuel Dean for Edmund White in 1897. He had various posts on the council, collecting market rates, inspecting schools, etc., and he was the assistant surveyor. He retired aged 80, when his daughter took on the job. He died in 1920, aged 90. It's an eccentric 3 storey place plus a cellar which seems at one time to have had a stream running through it.

 

[johnblack]

A photo taken in front of my house, before I was born obv.

 

[johnblack]

One without the kids in front

 

[johnblack]

One taken in the late 60's, demolishing barns and cottages opposite. The old walls remain as a garden wall with the old doors and windows still visible.

 

[T4tomo]

A photo taken in front of my house, before I was born obv.
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you have a lot of siblings - Catholic?

 

[VinSumRox]

Ours is an ex Church of Scotland Manse that features on this 1905 postcard.

 

[Zimbob]

My place is a boring suburban 70's build, but my partner and her mother live in a place that was this chap's family home :https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Oswald
The First Sea Lord who was responsible for letting WRENS serve on ships..

 

[Regular.Cyclist]

Despite the building that has since become the home, I am moving to shortly, existing for close to 180 years no online archived photos exist of it. The earliest are from around 2015.

Contrast that against my home in Edinburgh. Video exists online of the breakwater being constructed, they then filed in behind the breakwater to form a harbour. All that took place between 1936 and 1943. The whole area underwent further extensive land reclamation from 1966. In 2004 plans to build homes was approved and my home was completed a little after.

All this was extensively documented and I have spent a lot of time looking into it.

 

[presta]

For anyone who wants to look up their house or other places of interest, there's an archive of aerial photos covering the whole of England here. Many are RAF photos from during and after the war, but they cover about a century, new and old.

 

[Gillstay]

Yes, was looking at before and after WW2 photo's of Coventry after a recent visit. Very interesting.

 

[Dave7]

For anyone who wants to look up their house or other places of interest, there's an archive of aerial photos covering the whole of England here. Many are RAF photos from during and after the war, but they cover about a century, new and old.

I have this aerial photo of my house taken in the 80s. Weird really. A knock on the door and a guy selling photos his company had taken. Price was right and it's now a prized possession.
Behind is a 'country park'. Behind and to the right are my gardens. To the front WAS open land but now houses.
My daughter loves it and will inherit it as she and her family now live here.

 

[MontyVeda]

Not really... but the old couple who lived downstairs the last two years had purchased a large abstract painting by a local artist. They were a bit blown away when i told them that the artist had lived at this house some 40 years previously.

 

[presta]

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.

Now on You Tube:

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsn3fPYJbUM

 

[alicat]

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

Wow! I grew up in Leeds (admittedly about five miles ENE of Holbeck and have never heard of that battle until now.....