Mick Mac Posted February 3, 2011 Share Posted February 3, 2011 Living in a Victorian house as most of ED do, do we ever think of the people that used to sit where we sit, sleep where we sleep...dig the same turf, cut the same grass, over the last 100 or more years. Creepy.... Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/15586-this-old-house/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brendan Posted February 3, 2011 Share Posted February 3, 2011 I live in a house that was built in the late 14 hundreds. The idea of how many people must have been born, lived, grown, dreamt and died within the 4 walls where I eat porridge, play with the baby and watch East Enders freaks me out man. The bloody house was built 200 years before the country I am from existed. That?s odd. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/15586-this-old-house/#findComment-407176 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brendan Posted February 3, 2011 Share Posted February 3, 2011 Scratch that. more like 400 years before it existed. 200 years before it was settled by Europeans. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/15586-this-old-house/#findComment-407177 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dorothy Posted February 3, 2011 Share Posted February 3, 2011 Golly, where is your house Brendan? Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/15586-this-old-house/#findComment-407178 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mick Mac Posted February 3, 2011 Author Share Posted February 3, 2011 Only you can scratch your own posts Brendan. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/15586-this-old-house/#findComment-407181 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sue Posted February 3, 2011 Share Posted February 3, 2011 This old house is falling down around my earsI'm drowning in a river of my tearsRichard and Linda Thompson:)-D Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/15586-this-old-house/#findComment-407182 Share on other sites More sharing options...
nashoi Posted February 3, 2011 Share Posted February 3, 2011 When friends of mine recently moved to a late victorian house in Byfleet, hanging in the hall they found a photograph of the men who had built the place, posing outside the front door. On the back was a list of everyone who had lived there, the dates they'd moved in and out and what the house had cost. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/15586-this-old-house/#findComment-407183 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brendan Posted February 3, 2011 Share Posted February 3, 2011 Not in ED. In the depths of deepest darkest Surrey. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/15586-this-old-house/#findComment-407185 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mick Mac Posted February 3, 2011 Author Share Posted February 3, 2011 Brendan RIP. Very sad demise. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/15586-this-old-house/#findComment-407190 Share on other sites More sharing options...
HAL9000 Posted February 3, 2011 Share Posted February 3, 2011 As a youngster I used to leave a time capsule in every house we lived in, usually embedded in a wall or under the floorboards - I wonder what happened to them sometimes?Still waiting for my Am?lie Poulain moment. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/15586-this-old-house/#findComment-407195 Share on other sites More sharing options...
katie1997 Posted February 3, 2011 Share Posted February 3, 2011 Mick Mac Wrote:-------------------------------------------------------> Living in a Victorian house as most of ED do, do> we ever think of the people that used to sit where> we sit, sleep where we sleep...dig the same turf,> cut the same grass, over the last 100 or more> years. > > Creepy....Its a very good question Mick Mac. I often think of the young scullery maid, worse for the wear after a night down the gin palace*, furtively tiptoeing up the narrow, creaky stairs, trying hard not to awaken the others in the house. With a day of drudgery and servitude to look forward to.Not too dissimilar to me after a night on the lash that ended up in the back bar of a certain kebab house. On a school night. With a day of drudgery and servitude to look forward to. *historical inaccuracies aside. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/15586-this-old-house/#findComment-407207 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Applespider Posted February 3, 2011 Share Posted February 3, 2011 Yes - I quite often think about the people who must have lived in my house - particularly since I live in a conversion so there's the added curiosity about what the rooms were used for.I've never left a time capsule but when decorating and stripping wallpaper, I do like to leave a message scribbled on the plaster to be covered over by the new paper - I like to think that one day when someone finally strips it off, they'll get a surprise. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/15586-this-old-house/#findComment-407211 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mick Mac Posted February 3, 2011 Author Share Posted February 3, 2011 I have been to that kebab house bar, as advertised on here, they charged me ?10 to get in. Is that normal... Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/15586-this-old-house/#findComment-407212 Share on other sites More sharing options...
GSJ57 Posted February 3, 2011 Share Posted February 3, 2011 If anyone wants to PM me their address, I can look up who lived in your house on the 1901 or 1891 census. A policeman, wife and 5 children were in my old house in Rodwell Rd in 1901! Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/15586-this-old-house/#findComment-407214 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Annette Curtain Posted February 4, 2011 Share Posted February 4, 2011 When you pull down a ceiling in an old house, the dark grey dust contains dead skin cells from all that have lived there before.Ready to be inhaled.( Mmmmmmm nice ) ::oA. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/15586-this-old-house/#findComment-407247 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huggers Posted February 4, 2011 Share Posted February 4, 2011 We are only the third people to live in our Victorian terrace. Our house remains pretty original with rooms arranged without being knocked together.The sisters of the builder were the first owners. Followed by an old lady who ended up living with her sister in an informally divided house.The two things we changed, eventually, was to move the huge bathroom at the back to the middle of the house. I think they were just stuck on the back of the houses when bathrooms became de rigeur.Also adding a window to the back of the kitchen overlooking the garden.So many houses we looked at were ''blind'' at the back, with ony french doors from the ''back sitting room' overlooking the garden.This is because no one wanted to be in the garden and have to look at the skullery maid in the kitchen working away.A couple of years ago, to make room for a piano, we knocked away a very solid looking corner''shelf'' in our dining room- it turned out not to be a shelf, but the chimney from the old copper boiler in the kitchen running to the main dining room chimney.Some of the original wallpaper appeared when a radiator leaked onto it and we have exposed it all in the hall.We have succumbed so much to the original spirit of our house that sometimes I think it is us that are haunting it. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/15586-this-old-house/#findComment-407266 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alec John Moore Posted February 4, 2011 Share Posted February 4, 2011 I often find parts of old clay smoking pipes and occasionally old medicine bottles when I am digging the garden. When consdierign the previous inhabitants my thoughts sometimes go to the Mr Pooter character from Diary of a Nobody. Although the book it is mostly about his obsession with his position in society, it does give some insight into the Victorian middle class household. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/15586-this-old-house/#findComment-407325 Share on other sites More sharing options...
louisiana Posted February 4, 2011 Share Posted February 4, 2011 This house was apparently built by the one-time Chief Scout for London, or that is what I've been told by someone who lived in this road some considerable time ago.Oddness: I have spent time (as a child) on Brownsea Island, the location of the first ever scout camp (but not as part of any scouting thing). Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/15586-this-old-house/#findComment-407329 Share on other sites More sharing options...
???? Posted February 4, 2011 Share Posted February 4, 2011 I never really get it with my house but do quite frequently in a historic place like London. So a pint in the Lamb & Flag and you think Dryden boozed in here, ditto the Dog and Dickens, the CPT and Jah Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/15586-this-old-house/#findComment-407335 Share on other sites More sharing options...
brum Posted February 4, 2011 Share Posted February 4, 2011 I love discovering faint echoes of the lives of those who lived in my house before me. Less popular are the choices of paint colour left by the previous occupants... orange walls FFS! Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/15586-this-old-house/#findComment-407339 Share on other sites More sharing options...
daizie Posted February 4, 2011 Share Posted February 4, 2011 Three suicides here.. spooky . Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/15586-this-old-house/#findComment-407434 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Narnia Posted February 4, 2011 Share Posted February 4, 2011 daizie Wrote:-------------------------------------------------------> Three suicides here.. spooky .Was that before or since you arrived Daizie?;-) Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/15586-this-old-house/#findComment-407436 Share on other sites More sharing options...
daizie Posted February 4, 2011 Share Posted February 4, 2011 Ha ha very funny. Infact that is very funny :)) Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/15586-this-old-house/#findComment-407437 Share on other sites More sharing options...
katie1997 Posted February 4, 2011 Share Posted February 4, 2011 Mick Mac Wrote:-------------------------------------------------------> I have been to that kebab house bar, as advertised> on here, they charged me ?10 to get in. Is that> normal...hahahahaha, you're joking I hope? they charged paid me ?10 to leave.sticking to the thread, I once stayed in a 14c house in Shropshire - now a B&B (horrendous owner). Anyway, our bedroom was absolutely massive, all walls panelled with ancient wood, and complete with Priest hole. The place oozed history and a sense of past times but oh god, it didn't make for a restful night. Creepy was an understatement. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/15586-this-old-house/#findComment-407690 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mick Mac Posted February 5, 2011 Author Share Posted February 5, 2011 daizie Wrote:-------------------------------------------------------> Ha ha very funny. Infact that is very funny :))very unusual for declan I agree. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/15586-this-old-house/#findComment-407711 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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