General Chat

Mum and Dad bought a new bungalow in 1936 and it was our family home and birthplace for over 70 years until it was sold after Mum died.
I've met the new owner since at a neighbour's anniversary party and he's invited me to go back any time, ...but I don't know if it would be right to go and see what changes he's made. It needed modernising, so I accept that changes were inevitable....I just don't know if I'm ready to see them.

Gwyn

No comment Merlin ! pmsl

Yes think i agree with you Igor. I was born and lived in a house for 19 years. All childhood memories there. My Mum and Dad lived there till they died. I have been back a few times and stopped outside and all the memories came flooding back. Did this a lot after my Mum died. But was all too painful and as you say you have to move on, so I do not go back anymore and keep the memories I need in my head. Funny how the house always seems to belong to you though and the "new " people seem like like visitors haha.

Must have some rich folks on here them Little Ann,Might it be You.? pmsl.**M**.

Think Rose has been gazzumped by someone off here Merlin !! LOL

So when are you going to buy that three bedroomed Flat Rose? and have a House warming Party? **M**.:o)>pmsl.

i know it's tempting , but you should never go back.
I did and all the memories came flooding back, all the what if's and this is where the boys played, this is where i first kissed mrs igor, i know its a nostalgia trip, but that is is what it is . yesterday.and no matter how we try you can 't bring back the past
igor

Some years ago I went to have a look at the bungalow I lived in until I was 9.It looked just the same but smaller.The same gate post that Iremember sitting on to wait for Dad coming home from work.Happy memories!!

too right Joan!

i would rose but oh has got hay fever bad even perfume keeps him sneezing lol....................

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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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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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)


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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

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

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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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!

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

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