Would You Visit Your Childhood Home?

[gness]

My husband raised funds for the Kidney Association. When he died he had just started to organise...."Would you like to visit your childhood home?"
People contacted him with the address of the house in which they grew up...he contacted the people living there now and if they were agreeable he arranged a visit.....the visitor making a donation to the charity.
I was very doubtful to begin with but it was becoming very popular.
How keen would you be to visit the home of your childhood?

[starone]

I think you put your own mark on the house you are living in. I lived for years near the house I was brought up in - the people who took over were very nice and we became friends. The house itself felt completely different and did not seem to be the same house at all. Which was because it wasn't - it now belonged to someone else and was theirs.

[mccfluff]

i'd love to go see the houses i grew up in, not sure about kinshasa - id like to go but have no idea if the house is still standing

[Barmaid]

I still visit my childhood home regularly because my parents still live there. My dad still gets to see his childhood home because it's still in the family.

[starone]

That is very strange. I posted on this thread and it has disappeared, although it says on my profile that I answered it. It was quite innocuous I am sure, merely saying that I thought a house reflected the character of the person who was living there (not in those words but same difference). Oh well, lost in space I suppose.

[starone]

Strange, it has reappeared! Oh well, I don't pretend to understand the workings of the internet, leave alone AB!

[China Doll]

Nah, I'm not particularly interested in my childhood home. I would like to see my nan and grandads home again that I used to go to when I was little in the holidays, but I'm only even thinking about that cause I seen my grandad recently, I'll probably have forgotten about it again this time next month.

[Frank97]

It happened to me as well Starone, in fact there are 26 answers on this thread now but only 23 are listed, strange.

[mccfluff]

it happened to me as well but seems to be ok now

[MadMen]

The house I grew up in isn't too far from where I live now, so I see it quite often and tell my kids "that's where mummy used to live when she was a little girl".

I'd always wanted to go back to my Nan's house, as I spent a lot of time there when I was a child. I'd spent most of the holiday's there, and even as a young adult I stayed there quite often.
Went there not so long ago and felt quite upset. The whole house had completely changed. They'd built a massive extension on the one side, and the stables (it was a small holding) had been turned into some kind of home office. It was nothing like I'd remembered, and I went away feeling really sad and wishing I hadn't been there :-(

[Mais]

Probably not. I've seen it on Rightmove a couple of times and it's really changed inside. I wanted to see it as it was when I was a kid! That's just me though - it sounds like a good and novel way to raise funds for charity so good luck to you.

[Lloyd P.....]

No. Homes remain as memories, the bricks and mortar are altered and redecorated by later inhabitants, thats if it isn't pulled down in the name of "progress".

[chrissa1]

I'd love to go inside the house I grew up in, from aged 5 until 21. I used ro be able to remember the sound of each door opening and closing.

[billyft]

I still live there,( here ). Dont think I will move now just to come back and visit Been here 73 years

[nellytheelephant]

my daughter now lives in my childhood home. she has had an extention so the downstairs is different. she has only got 2 kids it make me wonder how my mum went on with 9! she always said she wished it was made of elastic! but there again although we didn't have as many clothes or toys as nowadays we were happy enough. i am the next to youngest.

[Sharingan]

Yes I'd love to, we lived in a lovely big apartment in Bloomsbury when I was little and a great big isolated Welsh farmhouse and I have epic memories of both.

[geniusx]

Would love to visit North Africa and Germany where I lived as a child good memories.

[jackthehat]

Rommel........Is that you? :o)