My message should have been added to plantar fasciitis but landed in the article on house deeds, old age is great isn’t it!
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Maggiemaybe
It was after reading Our House that I signed up for the Land Registry service, Witzend.
My heart sank a bit when I had an email from them recently, but it was just to confirm that there’d been no activity. Phew!
Our deeds were sent to us by the Halifax when we paid off the mortgage. No charge.
Our local history society appealed recently to people not to throw away their deeds just because they no longer need to keep them. There’s a lot of historical interest in the older ones. Our whole street was once passed on to the owner’s grandchildren - it was interesting to see that while half of them were in low-paid manual jobs, one lived in a French chateau and another was married to a member of the aristocracy.
Many people have an interest in seeing paper deeds. They can be quite interesting. Nowadays Title to property tends to be electronic but paper deeds are of interest
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