Your childhood home

[Smee_1972]

Where I lived as a kid is only about a mile or so away from where I live now. I drove past the other day, pulled the car up in front, and just had a look.

That house is where my best memories still live. Has anyone ever actually been back inside their childhood home? I am dying to do so, but something tells me it would be a bad idea (even *if* the new owners don't think I am trying to burgle the place) - it would not be as I remembered, and I am sure I would hate whatever they had done to 'my' house!

Just wondered if anyone else here has seen their old home, and what memories it had stirred.....the first thing I always think when I see my old house is that it's smaller than before...or am I bigger?



~Smee_1972 x

[sixtyten]

No,but went back to old primary school and had a look round.Everything was tiny

[andria]

I drive past my old home everyday on my way to and from work, sometimes sneak a quick look inside when the blinds are open, but don't think i'd want to go in, i have my memories and i wouldn't want anything to spoil them.

[x-Nadine-x]

oh i wud love to go bk to the house where i grew up i often dream about it sad i know but sadly i no its never gonna happen i do see it now and again wen im feeling down i go sit down the road and just watch...lol i bet the street think they have a stalker....hahahaha

[Stockcarfan]

I still live in the same house.

[Cal]

when i was a kid my mum and dad had a pub in Kendal.......everytime i go back there i call in ,have a drink and bore the *** of my wife with stories of my youth there.

many a happy memory

[Grackle]

I went back once, a couple of years after we moved. I didn't go inside, just looked at the outside, and was disappointed by how it looked - my Grandmother's rose garden was overgrown, and the front wall, which had been quite a feature, as it had a sort of zig-zag top (like the top of a castle) was a mess, with the formerly-white stucco was peeling off.
The last time I was in the area, about 15 years after leaving, I visited friends in the town (Ilford), but decided I didn't want to look at the house - or even the immediate neighbourhood - because I wanted to keep my memories.


Opposite the house was a Territorial Army base, with an incredible old house next to the road - all fancy brickwork and even a tower that looked a bit like a candle holder. Beside that was a huge horse chestnut tree, so the kids on my street always had plenty of conkers in the autumn. They pulled the house down shortly before we moved, and I heard that they cut down the tree and built a primary school on the property.

I'm sure that the row of shops at the top of the road would have changed totally, and lost the character I remembered. When I was a kid, there was a bakery that still baked on the premises, a butcher's, a greengrocer, a regular grocer, an ironmonger, a junk shop, a chemist, and a few more that I don't remember exactly – there might have been a shop selling sewing supplies. On the opposite corner, there was a sweet shop - a real, old-fashioned corner shop, with sweets in big glass jars, and a tray of "penny" sweets, like mojos and those rubbery shrimp sweets. It also sold newspapers, soft drinks, icecreams & ice lollys, and a few toys. Looking back, I can't imagine how they fitted everything in, as the whole shop was only about 10' x 10'. Even to a small child, the place seemed small and crowded.

[old git]

Would love to go and have alook at the old place,but i grew up in a flat and they were pulled down about 10 years ago

[Marine Boy]

A place in South London until I was 6, then another house in Surrey from 6 to early twenties. I've been back to look a the outside of the London house a couple of times and actually lived near the Surrey one into my thirties so saw that often from the street. A few years ago, my parents actually contacted the current owners of the latter and went to have a look round. The very 70s wooden-effect cladding my father had fixed to one wall of the lounge was still there!!

[Aidanagain]

Having grown up on a farm in rural Ireland, my folks are still alive there thank God. I live about 10miles away & spend weekends there when Mrs.Aidan is gone to her folks ( about every 2-3 months ).
There wouldn't be the same level of house-moving in the country ( not here anyway ) as in the cities I'd imagine.