Where did you live when you were newly weds?s

A one bedroom flat I lived there for a year it was a mile away from where I was brought up. It was low maintenance which was good as I worked full time. We saved a deposit for a semi about five miles away it was a nice house and a nice area. I had my son and left my job that’s when I knew I had to move back to familiar ground I was so lonely.
I did move back to a more modern house it was in the late eighties and the interest rate tripled it was a struggle financially. I got a part time job and later had my daughter.
A lot has happened since then I have been in our detached house about fifteen years. It’s a mile away from my family home literally a walk through the woods. The flat I lived in as a newly wed is a fifteen minute walk away. It’s rather obvious I like being in a area I am familiar with.

A one-bedroom flat in a big house called The Towers on Bury New Road, Prestwich, which wasn’t nearly so grand as it sounds.
While we were looking for the flat, a canny estate agent pointed out to us that the cost of a mortgage would be less than the rent on the flat and we could get 100% mortgage from the Leeds & Holbeck Building Society.

We moved into our first proper home, a 2up-2down in Heaton Park, 3 months later.
This was 1970, happy days.

We bought a house with my in-laws ?what was I thinking?
We lived upstairs in a one bedroom flat sharing the bathroom we were there 9 yrs it wasn’t a happy house most of the time.

In a small prefab with the most ghastly furniture and flooring in the Middle East. It was all provided by the company dh was working for, though, so we weren’t complaining.
The frequent power cuts, though, meaning that our wallbanger air conditioners didn’t work when the temp was well over 120F, were another matter - with corrugated metal roofs the places soon turned into ovens.

A two bedroomed house with the most enormous garden, which we loved, northern suburbs of Brighton.

We rented a flat at a reduced rate on the understanding I helped the owner with personal care as she had a stroke. I was a staff nurse at the time. Unfortunately I was also pregnant with no children allowed in the flat. I had to wear really baggy sweaters every time I heard the call " Nurse" from the ground floor flat. We were able to buy a house before the baby was born.

An old terraced house that we bought for £1400, and spent £1000 adding a bathroom.

Rented a one bedroom ground floor flat. Living room, bedroom and kitchen which only had a sink, gas cooker and sadia. No cupboards anywhere. No heating apart from open coal fire. The toilet was outside at bottom of garden. No bathroom. This was early 70s and a very miserable existence.

A two up two down old terraced house. We saved really hard to be able to buy it, most of our money went on the mortgage. We happily accepted second hand furniture from family and friends and turned that little house into a comfortable home, we have very fond memories of our time living there.

Lovely house in Cyprus with beautiful garden. Courtesy HM forces. Thank you M'am.

Rented a one bedroom conversion flat on the top floor of an old house in south west London. It had a pay meter for gas and electricity and the landlord had it turned up so it cost us a fortune, and he must have made one as there were 3 couples renting flats in the house. It was so damp and all clothes then had metal zips so they all turned green.
Downstairs rather glamorous neighbour always wore full makeup, but one day when I knocked she hadn’t put any on and she gave me a fright, she looked so different, (so normal.)

We rented a beautiful flat in Leigh on sea for about 18 months then found out we could get a 100% mortgage.
My husband’s boss lied through his teeth to enable us to get that. ?
We knew we could pay, but his wage wasn’t enough on paper.
£5,400 in 1971.

We were very lucky tbh.
We went on our honeymoon for 2 weeks and the day we were due to come back to my parents,they went on holiday for 2 weeks.
We recieved news that we had a 2 bed brand new council flat to move into asap.
We loved it,it was in Redditch,West Midlands.
I still go back and look at the places i have lived and Dh2 enjoys my history of homes too.
I think i need to get a life lol.

Warrington in a 2 bedroom bungalow. Hardly ever home because I was at college.

We saved money up before we were married and with a loan from my Brother-in-law we were able to put a deposit on a house in South London. This was 1970 and I think the house was £6,000......and we are still there!

We had a tiny top floor flat in a building that stunk of cooking cabbage. It was so small that only person could get in the kitchen and you had to stand in the living room to open the oven door. You could also watch tv when you were sitting on the toilet.

Hot water came from a terrifying gas geyser over the bath and we kept warm with paraffin heaters. It overlooked the English Channel and in winter we had to stuff the gaps in the windows with newspaper and masking tape to keep the drafts out.

We weren’t there for long as we managed to buy our own home the following year. It’s now a very fancy apartment above a showroom for fancy speed boats in an area populated by DFL’s (down from London). We couldn’t possibly afford to live there now.

In a tied cottage 3 bed with big garden.with it came with the farm job stock man. So I moved from Cornwall to Wiltshire to a little village.

A second floor rented flat in Northwood, near Watford. We were already living there when we go married. We saved like mad and bought a terraced house nearby a couple of years later.

Upstairs large, airy flat in a terraced house in Devon; the lovely old landlady who was widowed lived downstairs.
She used to like a chat every day when I got home from work.

We lived for two years in a rented top floor flat in an 18thC terrace. The rooms were huge and very cold. No central heating. We didn’t have much furniture, so there was a lot of empty space. It was beautiful but impractical.

We were looking at unmodernised terraced houses, no kitchens or bathrooms, mostly needed rewiring , but we were young and enthusiastic.

My father law though we were mad, so gave us £2000 for a deposit, so that we could afford somewhere with basic amenities.

We bought a mid terrace for £9.100 in 1976, and sold it three years later for £18.950

We bought our first home in 1980 for £16,500. We were both 20 at the time. It was a toblerone shaped house, with 1 bedroom and the bathroom downstairs, and 2 bedrooms up in the attic space.
It had a very trendy shag pile carpet in the lounge. This unfortunately housed an infestation of fleas from the previous owners pet. I also had some fluffy mule slippers. The fleas made their presence known swiftly by jumping onto my slippers .
We tried to get rid of them with powders and sprays, without any luck. Eventually we had admit defeat and call in the professionals, and move out overnight due to chemical spraying of the whole house.

With my mother

Oh, and the interest rate on our mortgage was 16%