... together with my first wife, mother-in-law, our Shetland Collie, Corrie and budgie, Trixie - all LONG gone - I moved into a brand new house ... and, 44 years later to the day, I'm still here!
... together with my first wife, mother-in-law, our Shetland Collie, Corrie and budgie, Trixie - all LONG gone - I moved into a brand new house ... and, 44 years later to the day, I'm still here!
If you want your dreams to come true ...... first you have to wake up
wow arthur, just goes to show how time flies, lots of memories you must have there, i will never make that long in my house its just 4 years ago last month for me, but lots of memories for me tooOriginally Posted by Arthur Little
... together with my first wife, mother-in-law, our Shetland Collie, Corrie and budgie, Trixie - all LONG gone - I moved into a brand new house ... and, 44 years later to the day, I'm still here!
I think me and my son passed your house when we did our camping trip up your way Arthur.
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Very Scottish.
Anyway well done Arthur, you certainly having staying power.
In 1968 I was living in the front bedroom of my parents' house in York (arrowed)...with rather a nice 'grandstand' view of the race course.
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Definitely a place you call home Arthur
44yrsyou must have got on with your neighbours
my mom bought her house back in 1963 ! and still owns it, thou doesn't live there no more.
44yrs
my mom bought her house back in 1963 ! and still owns it, thou doesn't live there no more.
Wow Arthur 44 years in your home, you should know where everything is by now
I expect Myrna has well made her mark by now though
Mick.
Wow Arthur 44 years in your home, you should know where everything is by now... are you kidding, Mick ... these days, I NEITHER know where my hearing aids - nor my specs - are!!
I expect Myrna has well made her mark by now though
Mick.... nobody would listen!
Seriously, though, the house has been spick 'n' span since the day following her arrival - a damn sight better than I'd ever kept it throughout the preceding 17 years of living alone as a widower. And I'm eating more healthily now (even if I am"putting on the beef"!) besides.
What did it cost then, Arthur? A few hundred quid?... together with my first wife, mother-in-law, our Shetland Collie, Corrie and budgie, Trixie - all LONG gone - I moved into a brand new house ... and, 44 years later to the day, I'm still here!
Hmm ... well, all it cost me back then was a weekly rental of £3.10/-. (That's £3.50 in today's money, for the benefit of those members of two younger generations... i.e. MOST on here!).
Yes ... the *semi-detatched was/is part of a high-quality housing development begun by the then Perth Town Council in late 1967, and completed in the Spring of '68.
So, me and my entourage at the time, were its *1st occupants.
... God knows (and I'm scared to check - for fear of giving myself a heart attack!) what the rents would be nowadays ... because - as the sitting tenant - in common with more than 90 percent of householders in the scheme, I was able to purchase the property for around £15K in 1991 ... earlier in the year my first wife unfortunately died.
Possibly one of the benefits of the Thatcher years?
Yup ... I'm well-looked-after.
In June 1967 my parents purchased a nice 3 bed semi with attached garage, fronting on to York Racecourse.
Cost: £3,500.
Aye ... changed days alright! Away back in 1934 - five years before my first wife was born - her parents bought a *2-bedroom, detached bungalow for the princely sum of £600. Exactly thirty-four years later, her mother - by then, widowed and badly crippled with Rheumatoid Arthritis - sold her bungalow for the going rate of £3,000, to be cared for by us.In June 1967 my parents purchased a nice 3 bed semi with attached garage, fronting on to York Racecourse.
Cost: £3,500.
Suffice to say, *that house nowadays,would fetch upwards of 200 grand!
Frightening!
Aye those were the days to buy.
Thing is though....it was cars that were really expensive then.
In the early 50s my parents first house (2 up 2 down terrace) cost them £495.
Only a 2 or 3 years later a brand new little Austin A30 cost them ALSO ...£495.
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