23-07-2014, 11:30 PM
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The first home we shared together was a rented property. We didn't have 2 halfpennies to rub together and we lived there while we saved to buy our own house. That rented house was awful. It had no bathroom and not even a proper toilet. It was a pan lavatory at the bottom of the garden and a special vehicle used to come in the night to empty it. Would you believe this was in the so called swinging sixties?Rented houses were so hard to get in those days. It was either live there or with members of my family which we'd tried and it hadn't worked out.
We managed to save a deposit to buy our own home after 2 years of hard sacrifice and it was worth it.
25-07-2014, 06:05 PM
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The first place we bought was a flat, it was on the top floor of three (six units altogether), it was right on the edge of the city, so, on a summers evening, you could look out of the lounge window, uninterrupted views of the countryside, on a dark winter evening you could look out of the kitchen window, and see the neon lights on the tall buildings in the city.
26-07-2014, 08:44 AM
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My first independent home with my first wife was a tiny flat in Windsor in 1967. For the princely sum of 21/- per week (£1.05p for those who don't remember pre-decimal currency - or real money as I call it) we had a bedroom and a living room/kitchen in an old victorian house. We loved it as it was very handy for The Ricky Tick Club where we went to see The Stones, Yardbirds, Pretty Things, Manfred Mann etc weekly as well as playing at the Folk Club held at the same venue. Our only problem was with our downstairs neighbour who, unfortunately was a paranoid schizophrenic who thought we were trying to kill him with our constant drumming (??). We eventually realised that the "drumming" was the noise from our old typewriter (we were both at university and writing essays non-stop) and a cushion under the machine soon cured the problem. If he had been complaining about us playing loud music, we could have understood, but typing???26-07-2014, 05:57 PM
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I remember my first house very well 1981 and a 4 bed terrace in Headingley.It was `home` even though on test match days-and rugby we had to park on the allotments until folk went home.Cost?-£17,950,mortgage rate? somewhere around 13%-times have changed
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