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I moved in September...and went today to visit my old next door neighbour ..... friend's OH is working on my old bungalow for new owners who aren't moving in till next year... so he let me go in for a nosey around...sad, all that I liked about it they have ruined, and in the garden all my daffs and primroses were blooming as if to remind me what I had lost...

It was the right thing to do, moving...but still sad...have you been back and wished you hadn't? or did you feel like me today sad, but the fact that it was 'changed' meant that you felt a more final seperation...?

Rose xx

Hello Rambling Rose,

I went back to London, where I was born and lived for most of my life, all I can say is I am glad i decided to move away.
I really dont think i would like to live there now.

George

aw Rose, but you have your memories of how it was ..no one can take them away xx

I often walk past my childhood home and feel a little sad, I have so many happy memories of my life there.................it has changed, but the daffodils Mum planted in the grass opposite are still there:)

The thread title reminds me of my own Mum who, like almost every other Alzheimer sufferer, frequently asked to go "home" even though she was in her own home at the time.

In Mum's case I imagine the "home" she wanted deperately was a place where she felt safe as a child.

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I used to go visit Dad in London where I was born, then he moved, did miss it so.

I never want to leave where I am yet I don't return, miss it then it becomes a happy memory.

Where I lived last was the longest I'd been anywhere, I was the last of my friends to leave ... still see them.

Rose you have lovely memories, no-one can take those away, you have your friends too. xxx

Hi George, was down in London myself week before last...my ancestors are from Chiswick, and other side Fulham...have always loved London . It would depend on where you could afford to live lol, I stood outside Carlisle Mansions in Victoria where my grandfather was once the hall porter. It is just by Westminster Cathedral, lovely quiet road... google informs me I could have a 3 bedroom flat there for 1.48 million :)...lol

Stella, I will have the memories yes :) it was a nicer place to live for the first 9 years I was there, I don't want to be back there...just wish I could have lifted it all up and plonked it down somewhere else lol

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Hi Rambling Rose, Fulham and chiswick, know them well,
i am from Paddington, not nice there now.

I think it is particularly poignant really because like you Shimms it was the longest I had ever lived anywhere, and the first home i owned... also because it was the last place mum was with me...she did a lot of pottering in that garden :)

hi rose i passed my home last week .. felt sad . only been in my flat 6 weeks today ..

Kitty , nice that your mum's daffodils are still growing there... it is a comfort to know that something a loved one planted nearly always survives :) a little bit of immortality... (ooh here I go off on flights of sentimentality lol,but it's true :) ....)

JGee, not long then, but I hope that your flat will soon be 'home'

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thank you rose it is early days ...missed going in the garden ..

hiya Rose I was born and bought up in the same street and remained there til a week before I was 21 first in one house and later as a teenager and beyond 8 doors away. After A and I married we lived in a tower block not far away then we had a mouth to feet so we moved into another flat in town much nicer but private to rent and we couldnt afford soon we had another month to feed I was 25 local council offered us an hour in the same street I grew up we accepted big mistake in the few short years I hadnt lived there the area but particularrly the street had become known as "Beirut" {draw your own conclusions you'l be right!} we soon found it was not safe to have our small child out {15 months old} with him and us being bombarded with stones, we could not peg out any washing cos it got nicked and what was left was beyond use and we also found in an evening if we put a light on ar windows were put it in and when we walked down the street groups of small children terrorised us. If you didnt nail it down it was fair play one night we even had a fence taken from around the whole of our garden. We lasted a year then had to buy a place to get away we were nervous wrecks at the end of it!

But what was sadder was our local shop had always been family run we had grown up with the kids and my Mum and Dad had grown up with the owners they sold absolutly everything and if they hadnt got it Joe the owner used to day I'l get it by 2pm when I went back they'd gone and it was far from being friendly the owner was very unhelpful when I asked if he had an item he shook his head did not speak or look at me and when he rung up what I hadf he did not say how much just held his hand out!

My Mum recently moved back round there but we go only seldom my kids dont see it as the same play Ive told them I grew up in they really hate going there!

Have you got a garden to your flat JGee?

Ethelfreda... it is a shame when places change like that, when I first moved there . there was never any trouble, you could and did leave doors unlocked etc...then the type of people who lwent to live there changed for the worse to be honest, now the place is on a downward slide all round, lot of vandalism, 'petty' crime etc...

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Rambling Rose, I was brought up in chiswick. I often go and visit the area I used to live, we went to show my children when they were much smaller my school, opposite chiswick park, its not there anymore just a load of expensive houses, such a shame, I was born in isleworth and grew up in brentford as well as chiswick, wouldnt go back to live there now tho, its really changed a lot.

jean

communal gardens rose not allowed to peg washing out at all

mel it hasnt change much in some areas... i was okay was there 21 years and no trouble .. but like you say nail everything down still stands lol ..but most areas have that problem.. always something now dil was giving me gossip last week lol.. its not the area its the people mel

Hello Jean, I want to visit Chiswick next time I am down that way... I believe that where my gt grandfather lived is now built on, expensive flats i think... but would like to look at the river there as he manned the Chiswick Ferry... I am lucky that nearly all of them worked on the river for several generations and stayed near it, so they have been relatively easy to find :) ( no pun intended lol)


Rose xx

aww Jgee not the same, but maybe you can bring a little bit of the garden indoors as it were, lots of houseplants!

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I coudn't go back if I wanted to, they've built a blooming big supermarket where we used to live, lol, but the strange thing is, there were hundreds of people lived in rows of terraced houses and now, it's just a huge store and a big car park, it feels as if the houses and the people never existed, but I lived there for 15 years.
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i would rose but oh has got hay fever bad even perfume keeps him sneezing lol....................

too right Joan!