I said I might show you our old house so here it is!
That was my bedroom on the top floor.
I must say its in rather better nick than when my dad & mum bought it.
They paid around £11,000 for it in 1953. It had been empty for a while & I always remember the excitement & even the smell of it...dust & a bit of damp on our first viewing!
My sister was two & I can visualise her tottering around the paths among the two greenhouses.
There is a very large sitting room on the back with an attached sunroom opening out onto the garden....this was where we had our wedding reception.
I think it’s worth a fair bit of money now, a great investment if we had kept hold of it!!
Three good things:
1. I have been to see the David Copperfield film with Dot this afternoon. Not the best we have seen, well acted but silly!
2. Daffodils on the kitchen table.
3. I scraped the side of my car on the wooden post in the middle of our garage as I drove out today. Had a bit of a senior moment.....all the times I have driven out of their over the last 20 years & today I misjudged! Good thing is the slight rubbed marks have disappeared using T-cut & there is only the mark on the wood to show what I did!
A house with a story and so good to remember the times you spent there. I agree with you about David Copperfield. I persuaded Peter to go with me to see it last weekend, but to be honest I couldn't stay awake - it didn't grab me at all. I have spoken to people who enjoyed it and found it funny though. I also have a largish muddy scrape on my car but have no recollection of hitting anything. A senior moment, or has someone collided with me in a car park? I'm not sure!
@busylady You & me a like the Judith.....I enjoyed DC for the 20 mins or so then all of a sudden it lost the plot....the end wasn’t too bad but wouldn’t recommend! Hope your scrape comes off as easily as mine!
Such a lovely home , solidly built and wearing so well ! Ooh dear we all have these senior moments , I grazed my wing on a low rough cast wall when on holiday last spring and haven't yet had anything done to it - it does need something more than T-cut !!
I was much relieved when I managed to remove the slight marks, helped that it was just wood & not hard like a wall....so easily done too, nearly spoilt my afternoon!
@maggiemae It was lovely Maggie....there were two bedrooms on the top floor plus small bathroom. It had proper bells in each room that jangled in the hallway. I think the top floor would probably be for staff!
I love your childhood home and your sweet memories. I had a wreck about a month after I got my new car, made me sick. It wasn’t bad, only in the shop a week. We are waiting to see if our insurance premiums will go up!
Lovely memories of your old home. I have got back into tracing my family history and yesterday I looked up the house I was born in on Google maps. I only have vague memories of the house because we moved from Yorkshire to Lancashire after my Dad died when I was very small. I see that the house is still called Amberley and wonder if the current owners know the origin of why my Mum called it Amberley.
What a beautiful house - I bet it is worth a fortune today. You clearly have very happy memories of living there. Sorry about your 'senior moment' - it happens to us all. Glad T-cut came to the rescue!
I was much relieved when I managed to remove the slight marks, helped that it was just wood & not hard like a wall....so easily done too, nearly spoilt my afternoon!