Animals & Nature1 min ago
my gran
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.I think your granmother is just living in the wrong area.Where i live we have the old victorian buildings and houses that are well valued and worth a fortune.If shes in her eighties she must have seen over the years many changes.My granmother was glad to see the back of the old filthy houses they were brought up in.Does she miss the old Work houses?Buy her an MP3 Player and download some music for her,She will be amazed at the digital quality.Buy her a Plazma T.V.theres much to enjoy.Have a party night for her once a week with a suprise stripper!!Its her family thats shes pi$$ed of with for letting her vegetate.Get down gran and Boogie.
I sympathise, but I agree that you happen to be living in an unfortunate town! I swear this is why people come back to Weymouth (where I live) year after year every Summer, as it is EXACTLY as it was in the 1870s!! Even the bus shelters on the esplanade are all Victorian still. And I like that. The building I live in is a Grade II listed building- an old Bank, that has Victorian pillars and decoration on the outside. My whole street looks exactly as it did when it was built- all the buildings are listed.
Maybe you could go and visit some towns that you went to as a child, either on holiday, or that you have memories of. There are still plenty of old buildings about!
Dear Tanyavee's Gran, I can imagine it must be really isolating to see things changing around you when you so want to hang on to childhood memories and keep a sense of belonging. Like Scarlett says maybe you need to have days out to places which haven't changed so much as a nice trip down memory lane, or perhaps visit the local museum or try to find books and phtographs of the old buildings. Maybe theres a local historical society or community project that seeks to capture your generation's history. I've got a couple of examples local to me - my cousin was involved in a communiuty archive project last year getting as much film and taped memories of Brighton together as possible and my Husband and Father in Law also did something similar near us so it can't be that unusual and hopefully does show that people do care about your history.
Now you've got tanyavee to post this, get her on the intenet searching for something similar in your area and maybe finding other things of interest.
It really is worth carrying on - I think you need to find something positive and active to channel your understandable nostalgia into. Best wishes X.
Thanks to all that have taken time to reply to my grandmother question, my grandmother finds it hard to understand why no one cares about the history of the great buildings of her time in her day, it would cost a lot of money to build a library and other buildings in those days the money would come from the local people and once they had raised the funds they would feel proud of what they had achieved but now they pull the same buildings down without a thought of what those people had gone to the trouble of raising the money to build them seems disrespectful that some of these old buildings that are of a quality that modern buildings cannot achieve and the reason they are pulled down is for profit not heritage . (my gran thanks you for your answers)
Tanavee, where I live is in the country so not a lot of changes but I think I know what your Nan means in our local town we had a very decorative house I think it was about three or four hundred years old and last year it court fire so it was sad to see it go now the developers have built five houses on the same place and they are an eyesore, why not rebuilt what was there before, yes its down to money.Good on your Nan .