Would You Visit Your Childhood Home?

[gness]

My husband raised funds for the Kidney Association. When he died he had just started to organise...."Would you like to visit your childhood home?"
People contacted him with the address of the house in which they grew up...he contacted the people living there now and if they were agreeable he arranged a visit.....the visitor making a donation to the charity.
I was very doubtful to begin with but it was becoming very popular.
How keen would you be to visit the home of your childhood?

[WELSHYORKIE]

I've seen the people living in my childhood home and that would put me off right away. Mum must have had good nets and curtains before she died in 2000 - the same ones are still up!!!

[Baldric]

It was a rural bungalow, long been demolished and replaced with a new one, the people living there are family of our old neighbours who I sold to, no memories left there for me.

[gness]

There is the downside Welshy. I grew up in a council house. It has been bought by the people now living there and looks fantastic....and I am soooooo nosey.

[Prudie]

There are several of my past homes i'd like to visit, especially as I still dream about them a lot. Be interesting to see if my memory has been playing tricks on me. Of course you can look at their front doors on google street view!

[gness]

One of my childhood homes was in a remote spot in Ireland. When the family sold the house and land it stood empty. I went to see it when I was on holiday and to my shame...broke in. Couldn't resist one last look. :-(

[daffy654]

I was brought up in various children's homes and foster homes from age 3 months to 16 years (with the odd few months at home in between), so, no thanks :)

[AB Editor]

Afternoon Gness. I'm changing the title of this thread as I'd like to use it in the newsletter.

All the best,

Ed

[Iluvspikey]

I couldn't if I wanted to, it's under a by-pass!

[tonyav]

My childhood home is only about half a mile from where I live now, so I see it quite regularly but only the outside and not the inside. The outside of the house is very different to when I grew up there though, I would like to see the inside to see how that has changed also.

[Mick-Talbot]

Not keen at all, I'm not really into nostalgia.

[WELSHYORKIE]

Gness, ours was a council house that mam worked 4 jobs to pay the mortgage after she bought it - poor love would be turning in her grave right now. I would have loved to have seen my first RAF married quarters but they were demolished and the land is now used as the Anglesey Racing Circuit!

[gness]

Daffy.....I'm sorry. x

Afternoon Ed. x

Blimey Spikey...didn't you pay the rent? ;-)

[Old_Geezer]

I do most weekends.

[LyndaB]

I visit my childhood home regularly - my mum still lives there and it's only a. mile from where I live now

[Frank97]

The house I lived in until I was seven has gone under a housing development, the one I lived in until I was 17 is still there. My mum drove down the driveway a couple of years ago, for a look, she said it was very run down compared to what it was.
Would I visit it again, no, I hated leaving there, so think it would only bring up some sad memories.

[DTCwordfan]

Not really; life has to progress and I like the memories, the mental pictures in my mind. Last time I went back to my old school with my niece and nephew, I couldn't believe how narrow the corridors seemed, almost claustrophobic....

[tamborine]

Some houses are on Streetview, others re-developed.

My old convent in S'pore is now the Metro, the lower cellar area where orphans lived are now shops. The church stands & painted according to the colors I gave from memory.

[shaneystar2]

It's just up the road .No I wouldn't like to go inside .My Dad died in the front room .It gives me the heebie jeebies when I have to walk past it .

[andy-hughes]

My parents bought the house I grew up in off plan, and house prices in the area has gone up very considerably since then - 1956, so it would be seriously expnesive to buy now.

I have driven past a few times, the new people have done various things to the drive and garden, but obviously it would resonate if i were to go inside.

I have mixed feelings, I had an unhappy childhood, and was glad to move out, so I'm not sure if I'd like those memories back again.