Apropos Grape Roots - our old place.

[peter]

Demolished in the early 90s and replaced by a courtyard of houses.

That is a shame, but such is the way of 'progress' and economic needs of owners of such places.

The private owner sold up in 1950 to Herts County Council who turned the forty scre site into a Secondary Modern School, which they shut in 1990, in the end a developer gave them circa 3.5m for it. All the classrooms were demolished as well as the greenhouses and coldframe, to make room for executive housing and a courtyard block, everything else was converted for residential use bar a medieval barn with an archway through it which became two office spaces.

Guess what they're scrabbling round to try an resolve at the moment? Yup a shortfall of secondary school places.

Actually attended home as my secondary school and am currently organising a school reunion, so have dug out old pictures, so I'll share our old garden with you, circa 1964.

We had the good fortune to live in the bit you see the windows of, with this garden, it was a fading remnant of the lost life seen at many NT properties.

[Pa Snip]

I don't know about others but speaking for myself I probably would not have fully appreciated this place in my youth.
Certainly would not have realised how lucky I was at the time to be part of it I suspect.

Now I mourn the disappearance of such places in the name of progress.

[robo]

It's a bit different from the end terrace with gas lights and toilet down the yard with half the roof missing that I started life in

[oldherbaceous]

You were lucky, we lived..........

[alan refail]

You were lucky, we lived..........

.....in a
in a

[Pa Snip]

You were lucky, we lived..........

funnily enough so did we

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[alan refail]

Nothing like a good glass of eh, Josiah?

[peter]

Cheeky lot, it was our tied cottage.

Headmaster got to live on site on account of it had boarders.
waits for jokes about Oldherbaceous being a border.