What was where your house is now?

Our house is a Victorian terrace, the land was purchased from a farmer called Hobson in 1901 the road was named after him! Our house was first purchased in 1903 but can't recall the first owners name but I do remember the house didn't have a number it was called Grundle. I found all this out when a bundle of papers were sent to me from the mortgage company stating they had no room to store all the old stuff!

 

Fields... thats what our house was built on, our last house was built for the RAF,
When i lived at home. the cottages, the bricks were made by my great Grandad and he lived there till he died. 60 odd years

 

Mine was just a field as well ,Mr Bodin snr used to keep cows and had to build some shelter ,this was a ideal field because it had a road entrance ,in 1875 the cow shed was built ,later in 1895 he built the hanger next door ,they kept cows for the next 60 years, in 1955 the farm passed down to mr Bodin jnr ,he decided to sell the cows and concentrated on sunflowers/seetcorn etc ,the cow shelter became storage for wood etc....Over the years the barn was neglected and mr Bodin jnr [now 65 ]decided to put it up for sale..

In 2004 a dodgy character from England and decided to buy it and make it into a family home.... >

 

our house was built in 1952, i'm not that old but my gran can remember when it was all fields

 

Here's some before and after pics of my house
Built around the end of the first world war, for the caretakers son of the school next door, my parents bought the house from him in the eighties and i brought it from them 8 years ago





as you can see the school hasn't changed in over 100 years

 

Our house built in the 70s on farm land , the farm house is still there nearly next door, the farm evolved from a two roomed small holding with inglenook fireplaces until 1842 it had been extended into a farm .During the 1920s and 30s it operated as a pig farm with a hatch selling produce to the road , it was the last working farm in the area .

 

My house is built on old brick pits where they made London bricks. They let the pits fill up to make lakes and then built the houses around them.

Everyone said the houses would sink but no sign of that yet.

 

We live in a barn which was converted about 20 years ago. The barn dates to around 1720 according to York University who analysed a child's shoe that was found when the floor in the old livestock room was dug out.

 

Our garden used to be the village walnut orchard.

 

Build in1903 used to be an old Orchard - still have the original apple trees in the garden but the crop was non existent this year

 

Fields next to quarries - then the house was built in 1936 and was just outside Hornchurch airfield during WWII.

 

Sand dunes & moo cows until the 1930's then vacant until my parents bought the land in 1977.

 

Green and pleasant lands

 

Swamp....... And is nearly that again

 

Cool pix. Our place built in 55 just after the flood, the house on our plot before we think got mullered by the flood as it was timber framed