Nice People Thread Number 10 -the official residence of Nice People

PasturesNew

zagubov wrote: »

A star from one of my fave TV shows back in the day has passed away.

RIP Alexandra Bastedo

She was one of my dad's big favourites too. We used to watch The Champions.

vivatifosi

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

Sadly, it's a night of drafting emergency judicial reviews and applications for emergency injunctions.



Lots of meat, bread and fruit, often dried fruit, I gather.

Other than the meat, sounds delicious... have just had a quick look at relevant Wikipedia page. Yummy

lostinrates

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

Sadly, it's a night of drafting emergency judicial reviews and applications for emergency injunctions.



Lots of meat, bread and fruit, often dried fruit, I gather.

Perfect meal.

PasturesNew

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

One of my sisters lives in an "in-fill house". There were wider, more normal houses either side of it, and in the 17th century, someone bagged the gap and stuck a roof on top, and bingo, a whole new house.

It's only about 10 feet wide - two storeys. The front door opens into the living room, with a door that opens to reveal the world's narrowest, steepest stairs up to two very small bedrooms. Walk through the living room, and the gallery kitchen is beyond that (a 1930s single storey extension) with a door to the back garden shared with next door, and beyond that, the bathroom. So to get to the loo in the night / early morning, you need to stagger down the stairs, through the living room and kitchen, and there you are.

I've seen infills only 6' wide in the papers.

About 20-25 years ago I went to view a proper house with a friend who was trying to buy. The house was a few inches wider than 6' and had been built like that.

You walked into the front room, then forward to a section where the stairs went up, then it was onto the kitchen. Upstairs, the double bedroom had room for a double bed and your knees knocked against it; in the single room it had a single bed and your knees knocked against it. Tiny it was - and they wanted £70k, even though it was directly on a noisy dual carriageway. Then came the late 80s crash ... and a year later next door came onto the market for £70k, next door was about double the size.

.... I wonder if it's on RM as having sold since... off for a look. That house has always fascinated me because of its mini-size and the price difference to next door over such a short period of time.

Many of the houses I am finding in RM these past few weeks have only been 10' wide.

PasturesNew

Interesting programme of Who Do You Think You Are US on BBC1 just started.

American woman - her grandmother died when her father was young. She wants to know how/why. She just asked her dad and he said he'd once been told that his mother had been beaten to death at a bar and he didn't want to think of his mother dying like that. She was 21 when she died.

Edit: She died of tuberculosis and alcoholism aged 33. He might have been lied to sooner about his mother's death, which happened later than he thought. The programme woman told her dad and they went to view her burial plot, to discover his name on the card as people who should be buried there. During her custody courtcase the witness statements etc said she loved her baby and lived for him .... then the programme woman and her dad had a monument put up on the plot, which contained his mother, aunt and grandparents. I think he'll go into that plot too. He had no idea of the plot or where his mother had been buried.

PasturesNew

I looked up the narrow house. It sold in August 2001 for £95,250, then again in September 2004 for £166,500. Zoopla says now worth £222,500.

Here's a photo of that house - marked in red. http://i1366.photobucket.com/albums/r775/ephonepics/MSENP/285NewmarketRoadCB58JE_zps6d5901e9.jpg

The house that had been next door to it, was to the right, so that's now been demolished and there's a whole new building there instead.

The building to the right was memorable because in the narrow house there was a strange area on the kitchen wall where the paint was all peeling - and the EA told us that it was because there'd been a butcher's shop years before next door and that's where the hams were hung, so it was salt coming through the wall.

neverdespairgirl

There's a very narrow building near Aldgate, that strikes me when I drive past it (as I usually do on my way home from my parents' house in Kent). It's possibly wider than PN's, but it's several storeys high, so it looks odd. There is another tiny one next to it, and a very slightly wider one, too. The 3 of them together would make one normal width building, I think. It's where the A13 joins the A11, near Aldgate tube.

zagubov

PasturesNew wrote: »

I looked up the narrow house. It sold in August 2001 for £95,250, then again in September 2004 for £166,500. Zoopla says now worth £222,500.

Here's a photo of that house - marked in red. http://i1366.photobucket.com/albums/r775/ephonepics/MSENP/285NewmarketRoadCB58JE_zps6d5901e9.jpg

The house that had been next door to it, was to the right, so that's now been demolished and there's a whole new building there instead.

The building to the right was memorable because in the narrow house there was a strange area on the kitchen wall where the paint was all peeling - and the EA told us that it was because there'd been a butcher's shop years before next door and that's where the hams were hung, so it was salt coming through the wall.

I wouldn't want to have the job of fitting ventilation ducts in that house. There wouldn't be very much of the house left outside the ducts. :eek:

zagubov

LydiaJ wrote: »

No no! Bring the avatar back. I find avatars helpful to keep track of who's posted what, and I'm not in the slightest bit afraid of pictures of swans. I'm not even afraid of real swans if they can't get at me because of being behind a window or a long way away or something.

I'm afraid my avian avatar is no more, it has ceased to be etc etc. :j

PasturesNew

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

There's a very narrow building near Aldgate, that strikes me when I drive past it (as I usually do on my way home from my parents' house in Kent). It's possibly wider than PN's, but it's several storeys high, so it looks odd. There is another tiny one next to it, and a very slightly wider one, too. The 3 of them together would make one normal width building, I think. It's where the A13 joins the A11, near Aldgate tube.

I remember some strange, narrow, multi-floored house for sale somewhere in London on RM in the past. Many storeys, mostly stairs inside... and maybe black/white gothic looking.