Your first purchased home - how do you remember it?

My husband was teaching in N.ireland, where we're both from, and in fact we've retired back there, but in 1975 he applied and got a post on a higher scale in a boys' school in Sittingbourne. We travelled over on the boat for his interview, he got the job, and we had 24 hours to find a house. We'd lived in a school house in N.I. as it was a boarding school. We trawled around the estate agents and hadn't much luck until we were driving down a road where we saw a lovely little Victorian house with a for sale sign outside. We didn't have an appointment to view but knocked on the door and explained the situation to the young couple who were selling. Think we saw it for about 10 minutes, went home and phoned the estate agents with an offer which was accepted. We moved in August and sadly my mother died suddenly just two weeks after we moved so I was very homesick. I wasn't very happy in Sittingbourne as found it unfriendly compared with where I came from, even though a very troubled time in N.I, but it was a lovely little house and a real sanctuary for me at the time. We only lived there for two years as he got a head of department post in another part of the country and, although happier where we moved to, I did miss that little house.

We bought our 1st home in 1985. We'd been council tenants altogether for 6 years - first in a flat, then in a 2 bedroomed terrace (town house) place. Our sons were then 4 and 1. We got a 100% council mortgage for £9,650. We left 6 years later, and sold it for £32,000.

We were very lucky with our first home ,it was a brand new semi 2 bedrooms and boxroom with a garage accross from the house...we didn't buy it though it was a council house and we stayed for 8 years while we built up our also brand new business.
We bought a flat after that and it was in a good spot but needed renovating from the floor up ,we only bought it to be in the area where our studio was and where the school was handy for our 5 year old.We loved that flat it was an upside down house with the huge living room in the attic.
We only stayed for 18 months though as we were offered a fantastic deal on a new detached chalet bungalow where we stayed for 6 years before moving to this house and here we are 32 years on despite having SOLD it 3 times and then losing the houses we were trying to buy.

We still live in it

First memory? It was warm!! Central heating for the first time in my life after growing up with the usual frost on the inside of the windows, etc.