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Nice memories, hope someone can still take him out to allotments if he can make it. Saw some places like that when we were looking last year. Proper old electrical wiring and 1940/50’s kitchens and wallpaper. Sadest one we saw still had plates on the drier and old underwear still drying in the bath along with all trinkets of old holiday’s straight out the 60’s or so and full of similar DIY bits and bobs.
Anything of monetary value, which I doubt was much taken out and the family who were as we were told by agents want “as much as they can get”As sorry as we were for the loss of a home. It had damp snail infested carpet in the kitchen and my girlfriend almost threw up with the smell on the staircase.
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Sadly he isn't up to the allotments these days. His cousin had been round to clear out the house so it's clean and pretty much empty for the sale. Hope they got a decent price, and hope my dad gets decent new neighbours.
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Spotted by a seemingly empty cottage today by Llanddona beach,
#Anglesey. A touching tribute.
hoefla
spindrift
The other half of the semi to where I grew up has just been sold STC, to pay for the care of the owner who's had to move out to a care home. When I was a child we used to go round occasionally to visit - he lived there with his mum and gran. They must have been the first occupiers in the early 30s. Never really modernised or extended - no central heating, no gas. I don't think anything had really been changed since his mum died which must have been at least 25 years ago. Beautiful and sad. He just carried on, becoming more and more anachronistic. Fixing things up, keeping his garden, cycling out to the allotment and looking after his gran's old house out in one of the villages. Until he couldn't anymore. Change is inevitable, I guess. Feels like one of the last threads to the old ways round there is gone.