Where did you live when you were newly weds?s

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.)

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.