A 104-year-old girl is promoting the home she has lived in since she was two years outdated – when her household purchased it for £200.
Nancy “Joan” Gifford was born months after the top of the First World War and spent 102 years dwelling in a three-bedroom home within the Somerset village of Street.
She is now placing it available on the market, having lived in it by the Second World War, the invention of tv and the invention of Tutankhamun’s tomb.
Her household purchased the home for £200 in 1921 and it’s now priced at £169,950.
According to the Bank of England’s inflation calculator, £200 in 1921 could be price £7,750 immediately.
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‘Everyone was completely satisfied’
Mrs Gifford’s son John, 79, nonetheless lives in Street.
He stated: “When I used to be a teenager, there have been so many pretty households that lived alongside the street, and all of us knew one another.
“The times we had as children were fantastic, going across the fields, jumping over ditches, bird nesting, and swimming in the rivers – so many things children don’t do these days.
“Back within the day most youngsters our age knew everyone, and all of us had an open home, and it was fantastic to go away your door on the latch. We have been all poor, however everybody was completely satisfied.”
According to the property agent, the home was inbuilt 1882 and initially featured a communal properly for the complete street.
When Mrs Gifford moved in as a two-year-old, the bathroom and wash space was uncovered to the weather, and a tin bathtub held on the wall outdoors.
The space has since been coated and had a brand new kitchen put in, however a lot of the home stays the identical.
Mrs Gifford is promoting the home and shifting to a nursing dwelling in close by Glastonbury due to her well being.
Source: information.sky.com”