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I have lived in several houses in East Lancs, so whenever I drive past one of them I cant help but give it a close look and wonder what the owners since me have done to the interior - you know the sort of thing - have they corrected some of my DIY mistakes ;) ?
I heard from a friend that a house I lived in from 1966 to 1971 was up for sale, and thought that this was an ideal opportunity to satisfy my curiosity.
It is at the end of a culdesac. I drove to it and parked in the 'turn round' space opposite it, and was disappointed that there was no for sale sign.
I was about to leave when one of the 2 old chaps who were chatting nearby approached me, thinking I was lost. I confessed the true intention of my visit, and after I had given my name as the first owner on the deeds, he was delighted to see me, invited me in to meet his wife, and wanted to know about his home's first owners.
It hadn't changed much. I denied responsibility for some problems they had encountered (there had been several owners between me and them).
However there was one DIY gaffe which I expected him to mention but he didn't - I glanced up to the lounge ceiling , and there they were, still there, polystyrene ceiling tiles :D
He appreciated the crazy paving on the drive which I personally had laid and it still looked good. I was able to provide him with the approximate location of the land drain pipes which had been installed under his lawn.
The visit was pleasant for both of us and I was glad I had plucked up the courage to do it.
I havent tried this at any other of the houses I have lived in - I just wondered if any of you have, and what happened?

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When it was my Mum and Dad's 40th wedding anniversary I did a book for them about the house that they live in on Fielding Lane. They've been there for 30 years. At the end of the book I did a potted history of the other houses that they'd lived in. Their first homes had been knocked down for regeneration in Blackburn but one house in west end of Ossy is still there. So I contacted the owners and asked if I could have a chat with them about the house. They were extremely nice, despite being quite elderly and ill, and invited me round for a chat. They showed me round the house and told me who had lived in it since my parents.

It felt really weird being there because I hadn't been back since I was 8 years old. It all felt very small because it had seemed so big to me at the time.

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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.

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I would dearly love to visit the house i was born in on Hornby Street.

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I was born at 17 Hornby St -and lived there until I was 18
What number did you live at - I will try to remember who lived there

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I was born at number 8, my grandparents lived at number 28.

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I've lived in this house for around 35/36 years. The house i was born in is just at the back of me and I can see the bedroom i was born in from the kitchen window!!! I dont need to go back! :D:D:D

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Number 8- It is difficult to think back to 47 years ago. The even numbers were on the posher side nearest the park and were larger inside than the odd numbered side. Yours would be 4th from the end.
Garindas' grandma and grandad lived in the end house with son John and daughter Doris
The family next to the end was Remel- Sam and his wife and 2 daughters about my age, Barbara and Jean.
I'm sorry I cant remember the others nearby on that side
Number 28- I think that was either the home of an elderly couple Lou and Gladys Harrison, or the Bimson family.
I will look on Google Earth to see if that helps my memory better
If I remember more I will get back to you (thanks for stirring old childhood memories)

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Just had a little "virtual" visit ... what surprises me is how much is left that I remember ... Riley's(?) paint works has gone ... but the swings are still there in the park (ok, different swings, but still in the same place). And Ringstonhalgh farm still seems to be there ... I wonder if the Swales still farm it ... can remember the milk delivery in the one horse trap with the churns in it ... my god, I just might have to pay one more visit.

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Thats right, i lived next door to Garinda.The even numbered side started at number 6, so number 8 was the second from the end. Ronnie and Phyliss Isherwood lived at 28.

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I remember Frank Isherwood (nickname Fishy) -- your dad?

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Yea :D:D:D and my mum, Irene.

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Nice to meet Frank's lass :D - small world isn't it :D

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Yes it is, lol. Im the middle one or as our family say "the daft one" :D

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I remember when he played a tea chest as a double bass in a skiffle group named the Rockets at The Empire - I think they won the skiffle contest - ask him :D

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I think ive heard about that sometime ago. :D
Looking at their wedding photo's it looks like my dad was a teddy boy :D

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No - rest assured - he was a nice respectable lad

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He certainly loved the cameras, looking at the Rhyddings school pictures he and my mum are on loads of these here ...

Life and times of Oswaldtwistle

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My parents bought my grandparent's house off them when they married in 1962, and yes the Isherwood's were our next door neighbours, with I presume Margaret's parents still living across the road. Small world!

We moved in 1969 to Stanhill Lane, and sold Hornby Street to my Dad's best friend, and my godfather Tony Perkins, so I did get to revisit that house for a few years until he moved to Fielding Lane.

Our house up Stanhill I've never been back to since my parents sold it to move to Fielding Lane, next door to Gayle's parents, another small world comment of note, but we always have a nosey when we drive or walk past Stanhill, and comment that the lawn isn't as nice as when we had it.

It's actually up for sale at the moment, so we did have a look on the internet, and decided the conservatory they've put over our old outdoor swimming pool looks tacky.:D

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Everytime I still see Jimmi's mum she still tells me I was a beautiful baby.:D

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I know now why the defense mechanism kicks in.
Was that the Sam Remmel who was the manager of Ossy Coop Butchers??

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yes I think he was a butcher - with such a rare name there couldn't have been 2 Sam Remels

There is no 'defence mechanism' - just put away the spoon

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Before we moved to Fielding Lane when I was about 8, we used to live on Brecon Avenue, as I think I said earlier.

When my friends older sister got married (I think I was about 19 at the time), she got married to someone called Allonby. When I was doing the research for my Mum and Dad's house I discovered that there were a family of Allonby's on Brecon Avenue so I checked it out and they were the same family. I hadn't connected the two as we'd moved out of Brecon Avenue when I was so young.

A few weeks ago, I put a picture in the paper asking for information about a photo that had been 'found' in a camera. Guess who should ring up to give me some info, but Mrs Allonby. As soon as she said her name I asked if she was the Mrs Allonby from Brecon Avenue, she was and we had a bit of a chat.

Very small world - Ossy!

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not much of my old home to visit
prefabs on barden road springhill
now that was living

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have some mates off "Barden", but thought you were a lanesider beechy for some reason.:confused:

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moved to laneside in 55
got a posh council house instead of the
asbestos shed

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then later you moved into a "tree house" at chaigley:D

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twas always my downfall
but cashy to the rescue

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You can look how much your old abodes were sold for on this site.

Free UK House Prices - nethouseprices.com

Happily I bought and sold my London flat at just the right time.:)

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interesting site,cheers rind, my old 2 houses from childhood are long gone,the rest since would need to do a world tour to visit em all,lol never wanted too really,but always like to look,if passing any.

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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.

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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

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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

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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.

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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

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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

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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.

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We lived all over the UK until 1996 when we moved to Ossy.

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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.:)

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UMMM 14 year old hey;)

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She should have gone to Specsavers.:D:D:D
Retlaw.

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Haha:dummy:.

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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.
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.

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Shut up Anne
I just didn't look up at this thread for 10 days :tongueout :tongueout :tongueout.

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Don't give cheek to your elders Mavis;)

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For curiosity the other day i looked up Accrington on Google maps and discovered you can look at photos of the streets - clicked on our old house and it was amazing how you could see photos, look up and down the road etc - wish I hadn't in some ways as it was looking even more run down than the last time i saw it. (Apparently they have one of those awful Father Xmases on a ladder going up to my old bedroom window during the festive season). In any case it's a pretty good way of taking a look at your old home!

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It's brilliant, for being nosey, at looking at where you once lived.

Most of this area seems to have been done in spring.

Must have been early though, as you can see frost on my gate.

I'm glad they didn't have wheelie bins, when I lived in London.

It looks terrible now, and they would have driven me mad.

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Chldren should be seen, and not heard, now go suck on your thumb, and be quiet like a good little child.
Retlaw.

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Anne play with your toys and break your leg :D :D:p:p

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That's naughty naughty naughty

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Out of curiosity I just Googled the last 4 bungalows I was involved in building when I was 13/15 years old at a place called Hale,Milnthorpe,Brought a tear to my eye when I remembered the last one sold for £4,500:eek::D:D

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Did you skip 14 because of the traumer that puberty brings?
:)

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No I went through that when I was 5.:eek::D