Grandad Built Our House

However, the house we chose had no special house number - we just liked it. We subsequently agreed to purchase the house.

What is even more amazing is that my grandfather only ever worked on these houses. He was a labourer working on the coke ovens at the local pit during the war, therefore a reserved occupation, and after completion of the houses was employed as a maintenance man with the Electricity Board until he retired.
The photograph [right] is of Grandad at Christmas 1959 - 13 years after he helped to build the houses
Sadly my grandfather died in 1978, but I often wonder if he ever thought about who would buy the houses that he helped to build - I bet he never dreamed that they would be occupied by his granddaughter and great grandchildren. My youngest daughter was even born in this house. So, the house is connected through four generations.