Looking at "Your" old house on Street View!

karcher

I've just had a look at my childhood, family home.

It was a house I loved and was distraught when my parents made the foolish decision to sell.

It looks almost exactly the same even though many have years have passed since.

I suppose it's pointless to still regret being moved, but I do. I loved that house and where it is. (In my heart, it is still my home)

Life would have been very very different for us all (and very much for the better) if we'd stayed.

Old_Git

I look at my mums house .She is dead now .But the street view was when she was alive and her plants and ornaments are in the garden

MrsJam

Old_Git wrote: »

I look at my mums house .She is dead now .But the street view was when she was alive and her plants and ornaments are in the garden

Yep, no where you're coming from. My Dad has also passed, kind of take some comfort in looking at his house on SV too.

moneyistooshorttomention

-Probably as well to take screenshots (if that's possible) of how the Street View is now - before someone like me buys it and changes everything. Unless it's a brand new house - then I "rip out" and that means pretty much everything....

The windows of my house are still the same and front door is still in the same place - and that's about where the resemblance ends and it's been total seachange in the time since I bought it.

Davesnave

moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »

-Probably as well to take screenshots (if that's possible) of how the Street View is now - before someone like me buys it and changes everything.

No need. Street view has a built in time machine.

AlexMac

Why stop at streetview for a scary history? Zoopla valuations often carry a link to any recent sales prospectus. I checked my first buy recently; one I left in the early 1980's... to find it was now worth just over one hundred times the £10k I paid for it; a shabby, mean, narrow 4-bed terraced Victorian wreck in a then deeply unfashionable bit of South London, in 1975.

Now, allegedly, a"truly stunning townhouse" topping a Million quid in a street where (thanks to Streetview) I see you can't park for skips and builders' vans.

Ironically, as we poured energy and tlc into restoring it (not knowing that we were guilty of "gentrification" as the word didn't exist yet) the outside still looks the same... and I see from the EA's pix that the ground floor still has the original Victorian pine floorboards that I lovingly lifted, relaid, stripped and varnished with a bit of help from salvage yards.

Maybe best not to go back further in time... It would have cost about thirty bob in 1905! But at least there would have been somewhere to park yer 'orse n cart.

iantojones40

I actually look forlornly at my current house on Streetview.... it's not the house I'm looking at but my old car which I really regret selling a couple of years ago, it was expensive to maintain and very thirsty but it was gorgeous to look at and fun to drive.

phoebe1989seb

iantojones40 wrote: »

I actually look forlornly at my current house on Streetview.... it's not the house I'm looking at but my old car which I really regret selling a couple of years ago, it was expensive to maintain and very thirsty but it was gorgeous to look at and fun to drive.

Oh god yes, us too.....ours was a fab Land Rover Defender SVX (60th anniversary edition) that is still parked outside our last house on streetview We now have a much less exciting Shogun