Bring on the repossessions

That's like Moss Side in Manchester then. It used to be populated by the
very well to do, but the cost of upkeep of the large houses became a bit too
much, so they were sold off, or converted into bedsits and that was the thin
end of the wedge.


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I still find it funny that my paternal grandparents looked down on my
maternal ones because my paternal grandfather held a fairly senior
rank in the army (WW11) and my maternal one was a mere corporal in the
cavalry (WW1). The low life corporal owned his own house though
whereas the other one ended up in a council house after leaving the
army.

Which one considered himself middle class and which one was proud to
be working class?

 

Yes.

http://www.cumberland-news.co.uk/news/viewarticle.aspx?id=287324

Extract follows:

Nick Elgey, managing director of Cumberland Estate Agents said prices
at the bottom end of the property market had doubled over the past two
or three years.

He explained: “We were seeing undergraduates from Manchester buying
properties up here to let, foot and mouth disease compensation money
buying property to let and private buy-to-let investors all competing
for the same properties.”

 

Andy Bonwick says...

When I was a small child I remember witnessing a particularly vociferous
argument between my dad, my uncle and my grandad - their father. At the
time my dad and his brother were both sergeant technicians in Royal
Signals, and my Grandad was a corporal in the RAF.

It got to a point where both brothers were siding with each other and my
grandad was getting the better of them argument wise, whereupon my dad
told him to STFU because he and my uncle both outranked him. Argument
ended there and then.

 

"eric the brave" <""simonb_at_zapik_dot_co_dot_uk\"@foo.com (eric the
brave)"> wrote in message

Something I've never ever seen that. When I bought my first house, it was 3
grand and I earned 22 quid a week, so a hefty deposit was needed. When I
bought my 2nd house, it was 8 grand and I was earning 48 quid a week. My
third house cost me 15 grand and I earned nothing like the 300 quid per week
I'd have needed to pay for it with a years income.

I've not seen much in the way of changes over the years either.

 

I still don't understand why my dad wouldn't buy his own house. It wasn't
that he didn't have enough money, because he was far from being skint. We
always had a car, something no-one else I knew did, and from the late 50's,
always a new car and usually two at the same time. One new and one "not so
new" Shite cars I grant you (Ford Pop, Vauxhall Victor, Ford Anglia, Capri,)
but new nonetheless.

Them paternals are to blame

and which one was proud to

Goes without saying. We know our place.


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That's a fair scope they're using, but the 3rd shot looks like it really is
a person being hit. Nasty.



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I forgot last months CC bill (for **** all at 56 quid) and paid up two days
late. The bank tried slapping a 20 quid surcharge on me, so I rang them and
they backtracked. I wouldn't mind this surcharge if I paid late regularly,
but it was only the one time last year.


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Beav wrote

Plenty of room for hypocrisy in the Labour movement mate, always was,
always will be.

 

Oh bugger. I thought that was exclusive to the Conservatives.


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Because he didn't fancy depending on the good will of bank?

 

Cheryls grandfather was disinherited from the family farm because he
dared to go to Canada and work.
He came back rich and then boozed and gambled it away with the result
that his 5 kids by his 2nd wife grew up in a 2-bed cottage in Cornwall.

One of whom was Cheryls father[1]

Phil.

[1] Who I never met - he died of cancer in 1977. The side effect of
being a stonemason in Cornwall - all that working with granite led to
much higher rates of various cancers from the radon exposure.

 

When we doing the great radon survey in ???? my boss stated the
*opinion* that he would not live in parts of Cornwall rent free.

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Tisn't just they Cornees, of course. Radon searches get recommended for
quite large areas of the country. If you want to really scare yourself, buy
a Ground Stability Report for your own house.
Ali

 

No thanks. Blissful ignorance is the order of the day as we are not that
far from the old Baggeridge mine where they used do win coal 'in the
thick'.

My first house was shown to be not far from an old bell pit. Far enough
for me to take the risk. Loads of them in that area. More than one
semi's garage has ended up as an impromptu deep open cellar.

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Heh. That's the sales tactic that the BGS use. I had mine done for free - it
showed up clay. Big surprise. Not. And a gravel bed, which was rather
interesting, as it's on top of a hill. Said gravel bed was right where they
found a first century Roman farm, too. The geology round here is a bit
skewed by all the tunnelling for Sekrit Wartime Bunkers. Dead interesting,
though.

Ali

 

<googles>
http://www.staffspasttrack.org.uk/exhibit/coal/technique/bellpit.htm

Interesting. So the old bell pit is inherently unstable as left.

Thank **** there's no pits near me, although I recall buses disappearing
into holes near where I grew up.

 

In communiqué <>, Grimly

Not just pits round here but limestone workings 'up Duggelie' (over in
Dudley). One gave rise to the classic quote on the Beeb when it opened
up on the A4123: "A hole has opened up in the middle of the road.
Council officials are looking in to it.".

Lots of grouting was done a few years back to address the problem.


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He didn't have any goodwill, so probably thought the same about
everyone/everything else. He was what's called a "loner" these days, but
really he was a miserable fucker with no time for anyone but himself.

Me Mam was bloody wonderful though, proving conclusively to me that
opposites really do attract.


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I can save money - it's clay. You only need dig about 6" to find it,
too. Which is a git when you're planting a tree.
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