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My Bury ancestors have twice fallen foul to the spread of the supermarket. Where they lived there's now an Asda and where they were buried is now a Tesco's car park ;D
Blue
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Quite a few of my Wolverhamptonian ancestors were married in the freezer aisle of Sainsbury's (formerly known as St George's Church).
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You're in good company, Richard 111 was buried under a car park.
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You're in good company, Richard 111 was buried under a car park.
I was quite surprised N.C.P. allowed it, to be honest.
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The back charges must have been horrendous.
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Quite a few of my Wolverhamptonian ancestors were married in the freezer aisle of Sainsbury's (formerly known as St George's Church).
I was born under the Molineux stadium - or, to put it another way, the house where I was born was knocked down in order to extend the stadium...
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You're in good company, Richard 111 was buried under a car park.
I was quite surprised N.C.P. allowed it, to be honest.
;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
It was the staff car park for Social Services ;D
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I am quite lucky, none of my family homes are under building construction , and most of my family homes are still standing (bar one of my mother's home's which is no more ( a church built on top of it of all things lol)and my dad's home which was burnt down) . But last year , a work mate went on a life time holiday back to his roots ( Aus to the Uk)and wanted me to research where his family's homes were so he could visit them (they were all no more, cleared for car parks !)
Kind Regards
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Most of the places where my ancestors lived have been declared to be slums and demolished, including some places which would these days be very desirable.
They've even had one of the houses I was brought up in.
My mum's usual comment is "If they were alive today, they'd be borrowing off us!"
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I think there's only a couple of properly old residences still standing where some of my lot lived. Both in Castletown, Isle of Man. A house in the town that we always say should have been ours as our ancestor was the oldest son but it passed to two unmarried daughters. The other is the Castletown Mill some of my lot were tenants at the mill for a time.
Blue
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Most of the houses my parents lived in as children have long since gone, but one street is still there, in fact a cousin lives on the street to this day. It is a street of terraced houses in Greater Manchester, but what the council have done is knock down the terraced houses on one side of every street of terraces, to give the remaining terraces front and back gardens (if that makes sense to anyone). They actually look quite nice now.
Also where I lived from birth is still there, my mum had a shop and we lived above and behind it, so basically a house with a shop on the front. Of all the other shops in the village, ours is the only one that is still the same as when it first became a shop (and it's on the 1911 census) a ladies underwear shop. Most of the other shops have turned into trendy boutiques, trendy cafes, etc. etc.
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While not a car park or supermarket, the gorgeous (but crumbling) colonial mansion I grew up with and it's 3/4 acres was turned into 6 postage stamp houses. I was horrified when I found out they tore up the 500 year old willow that cornered the land, as well as numerous other bits of 200 + year old trees and landscaping.
Years before we'd tried to get the house into the Richmondtown (Staten Island) trust as a historic building, but my grandfather had done too much renovating and it was in bad disrepair as well. :(
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I guess I'm pretty lucky! I went to visit a house that was found in a Census entry. It's in London where my great great grandparents and my great grandfather and his family were living. I was surprised to find it was in a Conservation Area, as as such, it was a listed house in Stockwell!
Pretty tickled with that find!
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Don't think any of mine are supermarket carparks but one is a motorway slip road, one is now a modern block of flats, a few are sheep grazing pasture.
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Then again many of the houses we now live in weren't there 100 years ago. I've been trying to research the property I'm living in. I know it wasn't built at the time of the 1911 census, it was farmland, although a thatched cottage and a house at the end of the road were there in 1911 (the house has 1910 carved over the door), the cottage obviously much older. The estate agent told us the property was 100 years old, so 1917, but the freeholder told her insurance company that it was built 1926. I've no idea where she got that date from as she hasn't seen any deeds.
And about 10 minutes walk from me there are many houses under the sea, including a manor house and it's farm cottages, following cliff falls over many years. ::)
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All my children were born in NEXT. The maternity hospital was demolished to built a shopping complex.
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You're in good company, Richard 111 was buried under a car park.
when Richard III was reburied in Leicester Cathedral, his hearse was drawn through the streets by 4 black horses. On facebook was a cartoon showing a voice coming from the coffin "Typical.. you wait over 500 years for a horse then 4 turn up at once!"
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My father's maternal family lived for several generations under the new Arsenal football ground
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You're in good company, Richard 111 was buried under a car park.
when Richard III was reburied in Leicester Cathedral, his hearse was drawn through the streets by 4 black horses. On facebook was a cartoon showing a voice coming from the coffin "Typical.. you wait over 500 years for a horse then 4 turn up at once!"
Thanks for sharing this Jed - very funny joke!
Melbell
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;D ;D ;D ;D
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The site of the church where my parents married became, about 40 years later, a JOB CENTRE!!!
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They are about to start work on a second International Airport for Sydney, New South Wales, They have been arguing about whether one is needed and where to built it for over twenty years.
It has all been finally agreed but first they have to move the bodies in graves from cemeteries which will be under one of the runways. There are I believe about 40 graves to be relocated.
7 graves from the Shadlow family, early settlers in the area, have already been moved. The family were involved. There was a service and it has all been paid for by the government. The others will also be moved. They are trying to find the families for the other people buried in the cemeteries.
Jan