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Doug 20-08-2007 20:59
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On the spare of the moment I shot off to Church to visit my birth place, the date was the 6th August just gone and the place was Church St, Church. I pulled up outside of the house and knocked on the door and asked the very pleasant lady who answered if I could take a look at her front living room.

She didn’t ring the police, but invited me in to her home. I stood in the room in which I was born 48 years earlier to the day, (Actually I was born dead and only made it into the world 20 minutes after my birth). I was made welcome by the family of this charming lady who chatted away to me like an old friend for nearly an hour.

Strangely the visit allowed me to lay a few ghost, leaving me feeling different about the house I was born and spent the first seven years of my life, yes some of it had changed, but such a lot hadn’t.

If the lady or a member of her family read this I would like to thank you all. Not just for the welcome, but for making the day a very happy one.

grego 21-08-2007 09:52
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Up to the age of 7 we lived at 6 Princess St in Church, I've never been back inside the property but drove past a couple of times, for a long time they still had the same lace curtains up:). We moved then to the chippy on Marlborough Rd in Accy, last year I went in for fish and chips and the shop seemed so small, it always felt really big to me as a kid, it felt very strange to be back there.

MargaretR 21-08-2007 10:16
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I have lived in eleven houses including my present home.
I quite often dream I am back in some of them.
The recurring feature of those dreams is that I discover a door to a room that wasn't really there. Perhaps subconciously I was dissatisfied with them as they were, and craved more space then.
Now I am thankful that my home is small - easier to keep clean :D

slinky 21-08-2007 14:29
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Originally Posted by grego (Post 462729)
Up to the age of 7 we lived at 6 Princess St in Church, I've never been back inside the property but drove past a couple of times, for a long time they still had the same lace curtains up:). We moved then to the chippy on Marlborough Rd in Accy, last year I went in for fish and chips and the shop seemed so small, it always felt really big to me as a kid, it felt very strange to be back there.
Awwww that chippy was well good!!


Well I can't re-visit the house I was born in because it is no longer there. I lived on Manor St til I was 5 years old, then they knocked all the houses down.

Then I lived on Ribblesdale avenue the rest of my life.

I would love to walk down the ' raggy back ' though, Nr Manor street!! have some good memories of playing on that back alley with tinks :D .... and pinching potatoes out of the back yard of the Burnley road chippy hehe oh happy days

Gayle 21-08-2007 15:36
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Just found out that the house I sold in 2000 for £36k was sold in 2006 for £93k - just shows how house prices have gone up in such a short space of time.

garinda 21-08-2007 15:42
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Originally Posted by Gayle (Post 462806)
Just found out that the house I sold in 2000 for £36k was sold in 2006 for £93k - just shows how house prices have gone up in such a short space of time.
The house I currently have, doubled in the eighteen months between the previous owner buying it, and then myself.:eek:

I don't think he could believe his luck, as he had to sell, and was last seen heading to Spain with his profits stuffed in a bag.:D

garinda 21-08-2007 15:47
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...mind you, I didn't do too bably in the past. My London flat tripled in value in eight years, and the flat in Glasgow I bought off plan, doubled in price in three years.

The trick is always to move somewhere which has cheaper property prices each time.

I'm just afraid I'll eventually end up in Morecambe.:D

bullseyebarb 21-08-2007 18:47
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Originally Posted by Eric (Post 462439)
I don't think that I will ever go back to Clayton ... time is running out, and there is so much of Canada I want to see (remember this country is huge), but I can still look (sort of) look at my old place at 46 Rishton Road with Google Maps. It' still there.
Hey, Eric.....a fellow Claytonite. Who knew? I can't bear to look at the house I was born in any more, (on Brisbane Street). When my family sold it many years ago, it was the nicest house on the street. The current owner has let it go to ruin.

Bee 15-07-2011 15:44
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We lived all over the UK until 1996 when we moved to Ossy.

Margaret Pilkington 15-07-2011 16:46
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My husband was brought up in Australia .......on one of our visits he wanted to go and visit the house where he had the fondest memories........Primula Avenue in Altona ( a suburb of Melbourne). There he was reminscing to me about all the scrapes and mischief he had got up to as a lad....and then his sister walked up to him and told him he was looking at the wrong house.......his house had been two doors further down the street.:)

jaysay 15-07-2011 17:11
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Originally Posted by Bee (Post 919183)
We lived all over the UK until 1996 when we moved to Ossy.
UMMM 14 year old hey;)

Retlaw 15-07-2011 18:22
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Originally Posted by garinda (Post 462487)
Everytime I still see Jimmi's mum she still tells me I was a beautiful baby.:D
She should have gone to Specsavers.:D:D:D
Retlaw.

Bee 25-07-2011 11:54
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Originally Posted by Retlaw (Post 919242)
She should have gone to Specsavers.:D:D:D
Retlaw.
Haha:dummy:.

Retlaw 25-07-2011 13:17
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Originally Posted by Retlaw http://www.accringtonweb.com/forum/s...s/viewpost.gif
She should have gone to Specsavers.:D:D:D
Retlaw.
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Originally Posted by Bee (Post 921091)
Haha:dummy:.
That response is ten days old Gladys,
took you long enough, or did you need your nursery school primer to help you spell the words.

Bee 30-08-2011 08:46
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Originally Posted by Retlaw (Post 921106)
Originally Posted by Retlaw http://www.accringtonweb.com/forum/s...s/viewpost.gif
She should have gone to Specsavers.:D:D:D
Retlaw.

That response is ten days old Gladys,
took you long enough, or did you need your nursery school primer to help you spell the words.
Shut up Anne
I just didn't look up at this thread for 10 days :tongueout :tongueout :tongueout.


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