Ever Knocked into the house where you grew up?

ronan45

The house I grew up in i i drove by recentle they have gates up now. I half thought should i ring the door and ask to look about?
Would it be ok to knock on someones house and say "can i look about i lived here 20 years ago" or would they think your potty?

My name is URL

I'd see it as kind of odd tbh.

Solnskaya

I live in an old house with previously posh owners and spend a fair bit of time telling sons/daughters/nephews/nieces/aunts/brothers in law of the past owners to "feck off, no, you can't look around, and yes, I am a rude man*. and no, I don't care who you are. Move on the feck.

Mint Sauce

The house I lived in 20 odd years ago was a flat on the top floor of a high rise in south london, i'd be lucky to make it though the car park. So no.

My grandparents live in the house where I grew up, I see it every week

rannerap

I go by my old house every now and again ,I always want to knock in, but as someone said its completely crazy! Id rather remember it as it was anyway

Absurdum

I just walk in, I still have my key

galwayrush

The house i first got got laid in was replaced by a block of flats...

Jesus Wept

It'd be nice if one house came to mind instantly but it doesn't.

Up-n-atom!

Wouldn't mind going in just to see what the place looks like now. It was bought by a factory owner to house immigrants who worked for him, so dunno what they'd make of me strolling in to have a nose around at the front garden that's now a vegetable patch and the new extension.

recyclops

A good pal of mine grew up in england moved over here when 13, last year we were goin over to england for a visit knew she was gonna head back to her old neighbourhood so unbeknownest to her, i sent the houseowners a letter explaining that she would be going over and asked would it be ok if she called in.
They got back to me said wouldnt mind at all if she knocked in knowing it would mean the world to her, so when there i strolled to door much to her shock and called in, the owner let us in had lunch etc ready and it made her trip, nice story really.

TanG411

About a year ago the council did up a small row of houses, one of them being my childhood home. Moved out when I was 10 -- I was an independant child -- but that's a different story.

I pass it whenever I go to town, which is nearly everyday because I have college. I've always had the urge to knock on the door, see who's living there now, and have a look at how it's done up. Obviously the owner will think I'm crazy and never allow such a thing to happen.

It's also on my mind to buy the house someday, unless the owners are paying a mortgage.

seafood dunleavy

Paedophiles will try anything these days.

dazberry

After we all left my father put a big extension on the back of the house (why???) and eventually when he went to sell the house - no one wanted it because it then had a tiny back garden. In the end he sold it to "the corporation" who housed a woman and her disabled daughter in it.

A couple of years later, the husband of said woman was released from prison and moved in. As he is well known to the Gardai, they decided to hang around and watch the house and all his friends call in and out.

It even had a slot in the Sunday World - so it all must be true.

... so no, I'm not going to call in.

D.

Turtyturd

Mine is all boarded up which is a shame when you think of the amount of time people are on the council waiting list.

It was strange when I first moved out because I still hung around there and my best mate lived next door so I spent a lot of time around it without actually going inside it. Took a long time to get used to strangers being in 'my home'. But as I grew up and my mates moved out we spent less and less time there.

I still purposely drive by it the odd time and it brings back a lot of good memories.

Alter-Ego

I actually still have a key for every house I've lived in. I like Keys.

120_Minutes

Bono did that once, he made a video about it.

Latchy

No but it has crossed my mind many times and I would like to , so not as potty as you think although the present house owner might think otherwise .

phasers

yeah, Mam was none too happy that I'd forgotten my key again.

I passed by the house I grew up in on Ballyfermot Road and the owner was outside. I said hi and said I used to live there but felt a bit strange afterwards, thinking she probably thought I was insane or something.

maglite

"Ever Knocked into the house where you grew up?"

I had no idea what this question meant until I read your post.

I had visions of someone strolling along and knocking off thier house. Blind git

CitizenKeane

Never mind knocking and asking, we broke in and wandered around the house about a year after we left (granted, nobody had bought the house in the mean time)

tony1kenobi

120_Minutes wrote: »

Bono did that once, he made a video about it.

Bono was in your folks place?

wiger toods

Theres a sound out old guy who used to live in our house when he was a child. He now lives in stalybridge. He used to come by every summer when visiting ireland just to see the house.
On his last visit he took a few pics and stuff and wowed us all with his childhood stories growing up in the place.
Apparently we have a well somewhere on the grounds, and a fairy fort too.(better watch where i put my fcuking foot, apparently:pac::pac::pac::pac:)
Hasnt been for a visit in a few years now!

arybvtcw0eolkf

Well I grew up in a flat in Balcurris Rd in Ballymun, the flats have long since been knocked down.

However I bought a house in Eas Wall a few years ago and one evening a lady and her daughter knocked in.

She explained that she'd grown up in the house and had moved to England and wondered if she could call back sometime to look inside.. I brought her right in, and honestly it was very moving.

There was still some signs of work her father had carried out in the house.

My chair (don't we all have one) was beside the fire, facing the TV.. Just where her fathers was. She asked could she sit in it awhile, so I left her and her daughter to remember the past while I went off and made tea and a snack.

When I came back she was in floods of tears remembering her dad and growing up.

It was a really nice experience all round.

recyclops

recyclops wrote: »

A good pal of mine grew up in england moved over here when 13, last year we were goin over to england for a visit knew she was gonna head back to her old neighbourhood so unbeknownest to her, i sent the houseowners a letter explaining that she would be going over and asked would it be ok if she called in.
They got back to me said wouldnt mind at all if she knocked in knowing it would mean the world to her, so when there i strolled to door much to her shock and called in, the owner let us in had lunch etc ready and it made her trip, nice story really.

That's really nice, thanks for sharing.

The house I grew up in has since been demolished and the land cleared, where now stands about 4 homes in what was once only 1/3 of an acre.

fonecrusher1

~doorbell noise~

Home owner - Yeah?

Me - listen i used to live here, do mind if i have a walk around..?

Home owner - go on so!

Me - can i take your tv? I used to live here?...

Home owner - go on so!

Me - can i take your laptop & car keys & drive off in your car?

Home owner - go on so!

Me - listen girl (the homeowner is a man btw) jeremy kyle is on in half an hour...goodluck!

Home owner - go on so!
...........

Home owner - go on so!
...........

Home owner - go on so!

20 minutes of silence pass...

Home owner - go on so!

strange chap^

Jesus Wept

Thalia Microscopic Cockatoo wrote: »

Well I grew up in a flat in Balcurris Rd in Ballymun, the flats have long since been knocked down.

However I bought a house in Eas Wall a few years ago and one evening a lady and her daughter knocked in.

She explained that she'd grown up in the house and had moved to England and wondered if she could call back sometime to look inside.. I brought her right in, and honestly it was very moving.

There was still some signs of work her father had carried out in the house.

My chair (don't we all have one) was beside the fire, facing the TV.. Just where her fathers was. She asked could she sit in it awhile, so I left her and her daughter to remember the past while I went off and made tea and a snack.

When I came back she was in floods of tears remembering her dad and growing up.

It was a really nice experience all round.

Smash it?

arybvtcw0eolkf

The-Rigger wrote: »

Smash it?

What?.

Seloth

Has happened once or twice.

It was the man by himself,around 50 or 60 and told us of how the living room was once two separate rooms and that our house was in fact two separate houses but the second one was bought when the elderly woman who lived here passed away.He said he could still remember his dad knocking the wall through to make a corridor.

face1990

My parents have a little cottage down in Wexford. It's about 120 years old or so, and one time a guy showed up saying it had been his aunt's house and he'd spent a lot of time there as a child.
I'm not sure if they showed him round the house, but he told my parents what the garden was like back then, and how the upstairs of the house was all one big room (it's divided into two now).

It was a nice experience, but I can also see how it could seem a bit odd. I think my mam was a bit wary about actually letting him into the house. I suppose you never know who's genuine and who's a nutcase.

Jesus Wept

Thalia Microscopic Cockatoo wrote: »

What?.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxr79eRSbNk

jocotty

i grew up in an old farm house, 200 years old to date, passed on in the family from generation to generation. my parents have now passed away, and the house is empty... my brother has a new house next door, on the farm. i call to the old house ever long weekend,or when i am free, and keep it clean, and lookingup to date the best i can, along with the rest of my family, who have also moved away.I cant imagine how hard it must be to see the house you have grown up in being lived in by someone else. the tought of anyone other then family living in the house would destroy me i think!!!thats one advantage of growin up in a farming family... the house we were brought up in is ours for ever... (unless something goes drastically wrong, and the farm has to be sold...but that usually very unlikely.

anyway, in responce to your query...i think you should call in , and ask for a look around, and if the new owners dont like it..thats there problem i think . definitly. why should they be like that???

Tar.Aldarion

My parents live there, so once a year, maybe twice

AnonoBoy

With a wrecking ball once, yes.

MoodeRator

irish-stew wrote: »

The house I lived in 20 odd years ago was a flat on the top floor of a high rise in south london, i'd be lucky to make it though the car park. So no.

A lot of the flat in Sowf Lundon are now privetly owned and modernised! You might be surprised who lives in the area now! But then again you may not:o

MoodeRator

Tar.Aldarion wrote: »

My parents live there, so once a year, maybe twice

great to go home now and again and "re live" your youth!
I am also lucky enough to still have aparent alive and living in the family home

starviewadams

Turned our old house into flats after we moved and built a terrible extension on what was once or lovely big back garden,hope my granda is haunting the bedroom that he passed away in!

blaze1

my mum was selling her house years ago, and the people who were buying droped in a stupid times. Remeber once she woke me at 8 on a sunday morning down to this..

So a couple of months later after the house was sold me ma asked me to drop round to collect some post that was there..
The cnuts left me on the doorstep in the pi55in rain while they faffed about getting the post...

So no.. never go back.

epgc3fyqirnbsx

I'd love to, I have two different houses in different towns that I moved away from and I'd really love to have a look around now.
I actually dream about them sometimes, weird dreams like finding a doorway in my present house to bring me to one of my old houses, then something like a gap in the hedge that will bring me to my either old house.
I also read that if you dream about old homes and they are in a state of disrepair or something like that then you regret leaving. Well I didn't have much choice but definitely don't regret it, I'm a bogger now but if I stayed in either of those spots I'd be a super bogger. Still would love to go back for a gurch though

karlog

Someone did that once. They came up to my house(a brother and sister) and said they lived there till they were 17 and it would mean the world to them if they could have a look around the house they grew up in. Well being the gentlemen i told them to f*ck off and slammed the door in their face. My house isn't a museum so go to hell.

Rubberlegs

I lived in England as a small child. Went back there couple of years ago with my parents and sister and my kids. Walked up the old street and to mine and my sisters horror, Mum gets out the camera and starts snapping:eek:. Woman comes out of house and asks is she ok, so Mum tells her we lived there 30yrs ago. Me and my sister cringe across the road while, Mum, Dad and my kids go in for the tour! Thought this was really nice of the woman, and Dad was chuffed to see work he'd done on the house still there:). Mum has stayed in contact with the woman every now and again. Really wish I'd got over my mortification and gone in too:(

iMax

The original house where we lived is gone from the family about 15 years & I've never been in it since, although I do swing by the road if I'm passing maybe once every couple of years or so.

However, my nephew (now 17), when he was three or four, was in the car with his parents somewhere around Rush & they passed a decrepit old cottage on the side of the road & he suddenly said "That's where I lived with my other family". Freaked the crap out of everyone.

Mint Sauce

MoodeRator wrote: »

A lot of the flat in Sowf Lundon are now privetly owned and modernised! You might be surprised who lives in the area now! But then again you may not:o

The car parks really not that bad, just no desire for it.



I'm over to south/southwest london a few times a year, not to my old estate, but pass through the area, some of it not changed a bit, some really done up, some you wouldn't go through on a dark night.

Looked up one of the flats out of curiosty on an estate agent site a few years ago. Ground floor two bed in the block I lived in, 200K.

Mint Sauce

Malia Easy Poison wrote: »

I'd love to, I have two different houses in different towns that I moved away from and I'd really love to have a look around now.
I actually dream about them sometimes, weird dreams like finding a doorway in my present house to bring me to one of my old houses, then something like a gap in the hedge that will bring me to my either old house.
I also read that if you dream about old homes and they are in a state of disrepair or something like that then you regret leaving. Well I didn't have much choice but definitely don't regret it, I'm a bogger now but if I stayed in either of those spots I'd be a super bogger. Still would love to go back for a gurch though

Lived in a couple of different houses up untill the age of 18, often dream about one of them. Last one was last night, woke up in my old room, with the whole family staying over. Aunts, uncles, cousins, their kids.

Columbia

The house I grew up in was demolished last year while I was up the country for college. Quite depressing when I came back to see it!

Nothingbetter2d

galwayrush wrote: »

The house i first got got laid in was replaced by a block of flats...

you reproducing so much that they needed a block of flats to house them all?

tralalanin

i was in the house i grew up in not too long ago... the people who live there now got onto us as we had left stuff in the attic and they didnt want to throw them away just in case! was so strange dough everything seems sooo much bigger in my memory... but nice how some memories just came flooding back to me!

Dick Turnip

Well i'm living in a house in the Liberties, one day last year two women came to the door. They were sisters from England and said their mother had grown up in the house and they remembered being in the house as kids when their uncle still lived there.

Turned out they were in Dublin for a cousins birthday party or something and their elderly mother was in the taxi outside. She wasn't too mobile but they helped her out and myself and my flatmates were more than happy to let them have a look about as it obviously meant a lot to them. The house has completely changed on the inside but they seemed just as happy to see how different some things were as much as seeing things that hadn't changed a bit. The mother said it was the first time back in 45 years or so.

I told one of the neighbours as they had lived in their house all their life, she came out and then went around the corner to tell another neighbour who came over and it turned out they were childhood friends and hadn't seen eachother in 60years.

I'm delighted we entertained them for all of 20 mins or so. The 2 daughters were delighted to resurrect childhood memories, the mother was able to remember stories from her childhood of all the families in the square and was reunited with a childhood friend after 50 or 60 years. All in all a nice experience Do it OP!

senordingdong

It'd be a nice thought, though if the shoe was on the other foot, I wouldn't be in a hurry to let strangers into my house.