Where did you live when you were newly weds?s

We started off in a two-up two-down terrace in Long Eaton which DH thought would be a good move after co-habiting in an old Victorian house which had been converted into flats. It was a lovely little home and cost £7,000 which was a good buy.

ps Jane - I think it was Cheetham Hill Road around the coener, where I got the bus to work.

It was a long time ago 1959. I was in a bedsit in a house in Hackney and he moved in with me. asked permission from the ladlady first.
Then we both got jobs in Manchester and moved into a rented ground floor flat in Salford, Leicester road. just around the corner from Bury New road where you lived Jane Ainsworth.

A two bed terraced house in North London. We scraped together enough for the deposit and almost immediately mortgage rates rose repeatedly and steeply. We almost lost the house more than once, and I became quite adept at dodging debt collectors and bailiffs. But we got through it and eventually bought our second home (3 bed terrace) in the same road. We stayed there for 25 years till we moved to our present home.

Gwen45

We got married and moved in with his mum and dad. This was despite the advice of my elderly doctor who said better to live in a draughty tent on top of a hill than to move in with the in laws! It turned out to be ok though. Their small back room was converted into our bedsit, complete with dining table & chairs, single bed with mattress resting on suitcases one side to make bed slightly larger, and soon after, a cot in the corner! I remember being so happy there, we had wonderful dinner parties with our friends in that tiny room!

Oh phew. I read the first sentence and immediately thought of that Hayley Mills film The Family Way so I’m glad it worked out well. I think perhaps the elderly doctor had seen that film!

An attic room in a Victorian house in London. In 1946. Had to use the basement for water and toilet. We had both been in the Forces and weren’t on a Council list. My mother disowned me because l had “married beneath me” having married a common soldier. Then were homeless with a six month old baby. Had to leave baby with mother in law who still had four children until we found a top floor flat with no bathroom. Finally managed to buy a house cheap because it did a lot of work doing.

We got married and moved in with his mum and dad. This was despite the advice of my elderly doctor who said better to live in a draughty tent on top of a hill than to move in with the in laws! It turned out to be ok though. Their small back room was converted into our bedsit, complete with dining table & chairs, single bed with mattress resting on suitcases one side to make bed slightly larger, and soon after, a cot in the corner! I remember being so happy there, we had wonderful dinner parties with our friends in that tiny room!

Our first home was a three roomed flat, bedroom, bathroom and a kitchen/loung/dining room. Very small for two people and a new baby but we loved it

Bungalow in Malaysia

We moved into a new built 3 bedroom detached house which cost £2950 in 1966. Our 4 children were born there and I still live there 55 years later.

Within a month of getting married we flew off to Seychelles. OH had a job as a Junior Engineer for two years. So our first house was a bungalow overlooking a sparkling blue sea. We had a maid and a garden boy. We were in our early 20s so it was all very different and new.

An attic flat in Germany while we were waiting for a married quarter at RAF Laarbruch. Tiny place, sloping ceilings. The bathroom was bigger than the lounge/kitchen. In fact, it became a standing joke among friends.

Bought a small semi with 3 bedrooms in 1977 for £8,750. Can't believe prices were so low, my conservatory built in 2003 cost more than that! But it was a lovely start to married life and I was very happy at playing new bride and wife there.

We were lucky - my sister and her husband were buying bigger house so let us have theirs -a three bed semi in Leyland, Lancs at discount (saved estate agents fees!) and even helped us with deposit! Started with donated furniture, cooker and fridge left by sister - new bed though!! Cost us £9,995 in 1978 sold it for £18,000 6 years later. DH often jokes he could buy our first house with credit card now

We moved into the first floor of my husband’s parents house, making one bedroom a kitchen and the main bedroom a living room, and DHs bedroom became ours. We saved for three years and bought our first 2 bed terraced house for £18,950 in 1979, with a 95% mortgage at 18% interest rate. I remember my salary covered the mortgage, I had £4 month left over and DHs salary paid bills, food and the very rare evening out.

A two bed bungalow on the campus of a school in Kenya where my H taught. The campus had previously been a British Army base so had all the necessary amenities, including a plant for converting sewage to fertiliser. We found that tomato seeds were remarkably resilient!

I moved from N.Ireland to England when I got married as he had a great job there. We bought a house in a wee village in The Midlands, it was lovely. My husband had an affair after a year married so we weren't in the house very long....

We got married while working away from home. We lived in a 'shared flat' that went with our jobs. The other tenants were a Spanish couple who worked alongside us in the restaurant. They invited another Spanish couple (who didn't work with us all) to move into the flat and allowed them to live in the Living Room - which meant that WE couldn't have the use of that room. Literally stuck with sitting in our bedroom and using the kitchen and bathroom as best we could. Not an ideal start to married life :-(.

In a new, 3-bed terraced house. We had a bed and a cooker, and no curtains or furniture for 2 years. We just wanted to start off in our own home and gradually buy furniture, etc.

DH sold his modern semi and we bought our first house together in 1974. A Georgian semi out in the sticks on the edge of the army ranges near Pirbright. We modernised it, jiggled the bedrooms around, installed a new staircase which was more like a ladder and spent 3 very happy years there. DD1 was born during that time. I feel very tearful just describing it ?
Bought for £9.5k sold for £13k and last sold albeit extended, for £600,000

We had a flat at the top of a three storey house. The living room was so cold and the settee had springs sticking out of it, that we spent our evenings in bed with the television in the bedroom! We had to ask for a bath so that the owner could put the water heater on to give us enough hot water. We had a little built on kitchen which was nothing more than a lean-to, and at night when the wind blew, we used to hope it wouldn't blow down! I also remember the owner having a little 'sausage' dog who used to come up to see us, and one day she wet our bed, and I had to take the sheets to the laundry which added extra money to our outlay which hadn't been accounted for that week. The dog's name was Sadie and we went on to name our first dog that as we had such fond memories of her. Lovely memories but at the time it was very hard.

We lived with my Mum for six months then bought our own run down 1930's semi which I loved, but when we got the keys the kitchen was full of bugs. There was no central heating or double glazing and the ice used to form on the inside of the windows, we had to bring the bed downstairs in the winter. Family were a big help though with cleaning, bleaching everything (it was filthy) and donating bits of furniture and rugs etc. Cost us £7,000 and we sold it for £21,000. This house has made the most profit though having paid £65,000 it's now worth £290,000 but again it was a tip when we moved in. We lived with in-laws between moves, never again lol

New build detached house on a housing estate (no phone or car) cos my h, now ex, wanted to live near his family! whilst my widowed disabled mother lived alone 40 miles away?. 50 years on and disabled myself, I live in a nice bungalow just up the road from where mum lived.

Think we were quite fortunate compared to some posters! Married in 1975 and rented a one bedroom flat in a block of 6. Was fully furnished with toilet and shower. Then within a year moved into a two bedroom flat in the same block. We were living in Perth WA at the time. Been lots of house and countries moves since then x

We were able to buy a 2 bed dormer bungalow on a relatively new estate. At 27 and 25 we were considered quite old to be getting married! This was the 1970’s. I had been saving since the age of 18 so managed the deposit. My in laws paid for the wedding (reception in FiL’s school) and we had a 3 day honeymoon.
Second hand furniture, a TV that would just switch itself off after about 2 hours and like another poster a flea ridden carpet thanks to previous owners. Had to take out window to get horrible settee in, chopped it up 2years later when we were given a nicer one.
Many years later when younger son started school we discovered his friend lived in our old house.