Today on Sunday Stills the topic is ‘Home’.
I’ve lived in 9 homes altogether, and I haven’t got any photos at all of 5 of them, but here’s a link to the first one I remember. I’ve had to leave a link, as it’s not my photo. I lived in the top flat at 819 Commercial Road, Poplar from in the early 1960s with my parents. It was haunted (I often saw ghosts), and the ground floor was then a branch of Barclays Bank (the first floor were offices). Where the window is slightly open, that was the passageway, and the window next to it and the two around the corner are part of the front room. The other two were my parents’ bedroom. I can see that there is still a betting shop next door, as there was in my time. My parents moved as they hated the noise of traffic on the Commercial Road, and there was nowhere for me to play. However, I remember standing down in the street prior to Bonfire Night with a home-made guy and receiving bags of money!
I’ve found another link – this time to a flat I lived in with my parents from 1971 -79. The Ferrier Estate (it was demolished during 2009-2012) was a brand new estate just built when we moved in to Goldmark House, the first tall building you can see in the photo (our kitchen window was the fourth one down). Over the next 30 years it became a sink estate, but thankfully I had long gone by then.
The other two that I do have photos of are the house we’ve lived in since 1991 in Suffolk and our caravan/holiday home on the Isle of Wight, which I have added below. I sometimes pass by the flat in Commercial Road, and remember skating down the long passageway, the tramps often found sleeping on the front doorstep, and sitting in the bank below with a piece of paper and crayons as my mother cleaned the offices.
Strange, but out of all of them I always yearn to go to the caravan! This year we’re going to extend the decking up the side to the main door. Can’t wait to go on July 10th!
Phil Huston said:
Gonna have to put a gate in the rail 😉
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Stevie Turner said:
We’re going to extend the decking up to the side door when we eventually get back there. We’ve got doors that open onto the decking we’ve got at the moment.
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Phil Huston said:
I saw that. I’d hate to see you whack that nice railing when you wrap the deck down the side!
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Stevie Turner said:
We’re going to get two quotes; one so that the decking joins up with the other one, and the second for a smaller decking just down one side.
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Phil Huston said:
Go for the wrap around and all the length you can get in one go. Once they get started a few more feet will be worth it. I’ve had decks, even a two story one in Austin. I helped a friend build one all around his “caravan” in Greenville. Different times of day you could sit anywhere outside and enjoy or avoid the sun, grill, read, shoot, play scrabble, drink…not all at the same time, but it was worth the extra.
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Stevie Turner said:
Yes that is the plan, but a footpath cuts along one corner, so a wrap around might not be possible.
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Terri Webster Schrandt said:
Great post to highlight home, Stevie! It’s fun to look back at the houses we’ve lived in. I’ve only lived in 5 houses since my childhood, but spent several years in apartments and condo. I know you are searching for a vacation home. We do have our travel trailer that serves as a vacation home that we take on the road.
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Stevie Turner said:
We have the holiday home as depicted in the blog. It’s static so we go to it and stay there as it’s rather large to take on the road!
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Darlene said:
I´ve lived in 12 homes in my life, I´d have to do some digging to find pictures of them all. All good memories.
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Stevie Turner said:
Thanks Darlene.
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dgkaye said:
Okay, now I get what the van is. We call it trailers here that are housed in a trailer park. They look like little cottages. 🙂 x
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Stevie Turner said:
Am I ‘trailer trash’ then (lol)? Vans are short for caravans. I love the location it’s in, and it suits us as a holiday home while keeping our main house in Suffolk next to our family.
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dgkaye said:
Lol, I knew you’d go there lmao. No, I know that name gets a bad wrap. My step-daughter has one in a park 2 hours away from here. The grounds are beautiful with great amenities and swimming pools, games. etc. Sparse amount of trailers there, really just all like yours what you call the caravan seems to still be labeled trailers here because of the trailer parks, lol. Not at all like RV parks for campers. 🙂 I hope I explained it better. 🙂 x
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Stevie Turner said:
Our park is for caravans and lodges, which are like small bungalows. There’s a clubhouse and swimming pool and a shop, also a maintenance team and security guys.
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dgkaye said:
Sounds like same as we have here , yes, like small bungalows 🙂
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dgkaye said:
We are also desperately awaiting lockdown lift so we can spend a weekend there too! ❤
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Stevie Turner said:
Just around the corner hopefully…
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dgkaye said:
I think I’m hearing some chatter here, maybe the end of this week!!!! 🙂 x
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Stevie Turner said:
Our shops have opened today. Yay! Long queues this morning apparently, but I wasn’t in any of them.
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