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21-OCT-2003 Chris Brooker

21st October 2003

Home Sweet Home

After seeing Ma this morning I thought I would pop over to Hendon (in NW London) to see what had become of the old family home.

Well...here it is...

I tried to find some beauty to photograph, but could find none. That really upset me.

This room was my parents bedroom.

We moved here in 1952 when I was 6 years old. We went from here to see The Coronation in 1953. My school friends came here to play. My brother John(9y older) went to do his national service in the RAF from here and then married in 1962. My sister Gill(3y older) would bring her boyfriends here and I would sit and talk to them.(I was a pain in the neck). I went to marry Adrienne from here in 1969. My Dad died here in 1979. Ma moved to a bungalow in 1982.

I loved this house.



Desaturated in PS

Olympus E-10
1/200s f/3.6 at 21.0mm iso80 full exif

other sizes: small medium original auto
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jeanb14-Dec-2003 22:45
Sad and somewhat surprising as it looks like it was a nice house. A cousin recently visited my old home in Edmonton where I spent the war years, and it looks much the same as it always did (but it probably no longer has the Anderson in the backyard..:-p).
Drop by and visit my PAD.
Linda Alstead03-Nov-2003 19:35
David and I were both saddened by this photo - what a heartbreaking sight of a much loved home.

David now has the blues about decay! His beloved beetle, having been stored for the last five years awaiting restoration has decayed too far to make it worthwhile.

As he said to me recently, 'home is where the heart is' - you now have a wonderful home with Adrienne and he will have another car!
Faye White21-Oct-2003 22:49
I first looked at this image earlier this afternoon and have thought about it a lot since then. Thank goodness you still have the wonderful, memories from this place.
Ray :)21-Oct-2003 21:31
There is a natural temptation to revisit your old family home but sometimes things are best kept as you remember them. After my mum left her house of 45 years for a nursing home, I went back in case there was any stray mail. In the end, I stayed in the car as the the biggest row on earth was taking place and I quite feared for the wife.
AhhBee 21-Oct-2003 18:12
How very sad! What a shame it's been left like this. I recally my return to my old boarding school, of 5 yrs, only to find the site had become a housing estate! At least that was progress of a sort...but this is just tragic.