This is a good idea, wish I had our deeds :-( I just looked through some papers I have (for safe keeping) of my sons house he bought last year and it goes back to 1898. The most interesting bit was in 1973 when the house was bought by a builder for £1,600 and sold a few months later for £5,000 to the bloke who sold it to my son last year for £25,000. I sure wish I had met and married myself a builder back in the seventies LOL TTFN Marion --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.209 / Virus Database: 99 - Release Date: 02/11/2000

----- Original Message ----- From: "Marion" <mm@mmaychell.freeserve.co.uk> This is a good idea, wish I had our deeds :-( I just looked through some papers I have (for safe keeping) of my sons house he bought last year and it goes back to 1898. The most interesting bit was in 1973 when the house was bought by a builder for £1,600 and sold a few months later for £5,000 to the bloke who sold it to my son last year for £25,000. I sure wish I had met and married myself a builder back in the seventies LOL TTFN Marion Hi Marion, If we're speaking - how far can a builder carrying a hod of bricks jump then ? £25,000 for a house ? Bl....y couldn't get a garage round here for that ! Dave :-) --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.209 / Virus Database: 99 - Release Date: 02-Nov-00

Course we're speaking Dave, I give up how far ? Yeah the house was cheap as it had been up for sale for two years but it is just a terraced, fair sized with two bedroom, they usually go for about £30,ooo in Shildon. Reason being that when the wagon works closed in the early eighties lots of folk moved away and also there is a glut of terraced houses which don't sell to well as even first time buyers around here want something with a garage and garden. TTFN Marion Dave's Mate ;-) <<<<If we're speaking - how far can a builder carrying a hod of bricks jump then ? £25,000 for a house ? Bl....y couldn't get a garage round here for that ! --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.209 / Virus Database: 99 - Release Date: 02/11/2000

Wasn't 1973 the year that house prices in Britain suddenly started going up? My cousin bought a semi-detached bungalow in Essex that year. My aunt was lamenting that he overpaid by 2000 pounds. He sold it a few years later for several times what he paid. He used the money to build a much larger and posher house in Ottawa, Canada. Jean in Nova Scotia HENSHALL Bostock, Byley, CHS, Sutton Coldfield, Alton, Ont Canada GLEAVE Bostock, Byley HADFIELD Hazel Grove, Bredbury CHS, Tyldesley, Manchester, LAN DAVIS or DAVIES Manchester, LAN to USA ----- Original Message ----- From: "Marion" <mm@mmaychell.freeserve.co.uk> To: <NORTHERN-ENGLAND-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, November 16, 2000 3:49 PM Subject: Re: [NTH-ENG] Fw: [STS] House deeds This is a good idea, wish I had our deeds :-( I just looked through some papers I have (for safe keeping) of my sons house he bought last year and it goes back to 1898. The most interesting bit was in 1973 when the house was bought by a builder for £1,600 and sold a few months later for £5,000 to the bloke who sold it to my son last year for £25,000. I sure wish I had met and married myself a builder back in the seventies LOL TTFN Marion --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.209 / Virus Database: 99 - Release Date: 02/11/2000 ==== NORTHERN-ENGLAND Mailing List ==== ENG-DURHAM-YORKS-L@rootsweb.com A mailing list for those whose ancestors moved between County Durham and Yorkshire, discussion of the history and migration of the region as well as for people looking for ancestors in either County.

Yes. in 1972 I worked for a building firm''s Security on the I-o-W and they GAVE me a house. Just to keep me sweet, I suppose. It cost them £1500 to build and hey STARTED selling at £8.000. No more need be said. ANYWAY, what I had decided to say was that I must be a really sad person. I'm sat here with a cold pork pie and a stick of celery covered in salt and I am considering going to bed [at 16.56] because I have NO Mail. And I pay £10 on top of my phone bill per month for the privilege. Can anyone with legal knowledge tell me if I can sue BT for breach of contract or whatever? Brian B Lancashire, UK. brian_bramhall@lineone.net http://website.lineone.net/~brian_bramhall/index.htm ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jean White" <jphwhite@ns.sympatico.ca> To: <NORTHERN-ENGLAND-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, November 17, 2000 9:32 PM Subject: Re: [NTH-ENG] Fw: [STS] House deeds > Wasn't 1973 the year that house prices in Britain suddenly started going up? --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free - checked by AVG anti-virus system . Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.211 / Virus Database: 100 - Release Date: 14/11/2000