Photos from around my Village today

Holly, what marvelous shots of your village. How lucky you are to live in such a beautiful place. It reminds me of some of the setttings on the Midsomer Murders tv show that I recently watched. And it looks like it was a beautiful day for a walk, too. Thanks for showing us your little town.
 
Thankyou all for your lovely comments.:D


Meanderer, no double decker buses come through this village...we're lucky to see one little country bus a day :D
 

AZ Jim said:
... There are 68 crimes committed; 11 philandering lovers; 68 secrets and lies; 22 false accusations; 59 red-herrings and 21 romances. In all, 43 murders are solved: 12 poisonings; 6 strangulations; 2 drownings; 2 stabbings; a burning; one blow to the head; one death by an arrow and 2 people pushed. 143 cups of tea are drunk ... there are 66 maids and 47 garments are knitted ...
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Sounds like my 18th birthday party. :cool:


That's a beautiful little village you have there, Holly.
 
Thank you everyone glad you enjoyed them ...:D We're very lucky because we live in the countryside surrounded by many little villages and hamlets yet with rivers and boating here as well, and close to a small market town.. and yet only 20 miles from central London.

I'll get around to making an album in the gallery soon, and you can see the diversity of it even tho' it's just a small area.
 
hollydolly said:
Looks almost exactly the same Ken apart from the cars..and the telephone lines..how many years between the 2 pictures?
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I found the old photo on the web, guessing in the 1930's..The people are gathered around the grand opening of an auto dealership. (antique store now).
 
How much do one of those beautiful homes sell for in your village? BTW, your village looks similar to some of the smaller villages in Connecticut and Massachusetts, minus the phone booth.
 
Blimey ken that's about 90 years old and hardly any changes.

RK thank you our villages around here are small and very close to each other and just as picturesque as each other

Oldman as for the cost of the houses it very much depends on the square footage...some are pretty huge and others very small...but an average price for a 3 bedroom one bathroom house in this village with a 1/4 acre garden would be around £350,000 ....the bigger ones around £ 1.5 to 2 million . We pay huge premiums on property for being so close to London for commute.

I could buy a similar house to mine just 100 miles North and get it for around 1/2 what mine costs
 
hollydolly said:
Blimey ken that's about 90 years old and hardly any changes.

RK thank you our villages around here are small and very close to each other and just as picturesque as each other

Oldman as for the cost of the houses it very much depends on the square footage...some are pretty huge and others very small...but an average price for a 3 bedroom one bathroom house in this village with a 1/4 acre garden would be around £350,000 ....the bigger ones around £ 1.5 to 2 million . We pay huge premiums on property for being so close to London for commute.

I could buy a similar house to mine just 100 miles North and get it for around 1/2 what mine costs
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And my area even cheaper. We aren't convenient for anyone who is still commuting to work.
 
I've looked around but only seem to have a couple of photos from when I lived in your area, Holly. I did love being a short train ride away from London. But Scotland suited me much better.

From the window of our flat:

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Well that village is one I know well Annie...it's about 10 or 15 minutes drive away and I know exactly that sleeve of the river where the yachts are moored.. I have lots of photos of it...

That village as you know has a train station making it easy to just hop on and straight into London...yet our village has no train station at all (more rural) yet our properties are much more expensive than SA the village you lived in ( you would think with close proximity of the train station it would be the opposite way around)...In this village and the next we have quite a few well known TV and music celebrities as neighbours..
 
hollydolly said:
Well that village is one I know well Annie...it's about 10 or 15 minutes drive away and I know exactly that sleeve of the river where the yachts are moored.. I have lots of photos of it...

That village as you know has a train station making it easy to just hop on and straight into London...yet our village has no train station at all (more rural) yet our properties are much more expensive than SA the village you lived in ( you would think with close proximity of the train station it would be the opposite way around)...In this village and the next we have quite a few well known TV and music celebrities as neighbours..
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We didn't need an alarm clock. The rumble of the first train in the morning woke us up! This was flat he found when he split up with his wife. She stayed in their house, and he kept their house in Scotland. Good choice!

SA is a charming village but had no real shopping except a wee Co-op. Fortunately, the Tesco in Hertford had one right next to the train station. I had my first temp job in The City. Hated it! So I started temping in Hertford which was very convenient.

The rich end of Enfield, where hubby was headie, has a lot of celebs. Our claim to fame here is we have Emma Thompson as a neighbour. Her mum is in the village next to ours. And we've had Julia Roberts and Kate Winslett visit. We suspect they stayed at Emma's house.
 
Hertford is my closest town...but I rarely shop there..BTW Waitrose is closing down and moving to Van Hages' garden centre at Ware.. Waitrose was my very first part-time job when my daughter was old enough to go to nursery , they were brand new and had just opened

Tesco is now a 24 hour store...

I do most of my grocery shopping in Welwyn Garden city which has a huge Sainsbo now..John lewis, Debenhams M&S, Morrisons etc..


Incidentally I was in SA only a few days ago...the Red Lion pub at the end of the high street is now an Italian restaurant as well as still remaining a pub...it's really nice now..and great food too..
 
hollydolly said:
Hertford is my closest town...but I rarely shop there..BTW Waitrose is closing down and moving to Van Hages' garden centre at Ware.. Waitrose was my very first part-time job when my daughter was old enough to go to nursery , they were brand new and had just opened

Tesco is now a 24 hour store...

I do most of my grocery shopping in Welwyn Garden city which has a huge Sainsbo now..John lewis, Debenhams M&S, Morrisons etc..


Incidentally I was in SA only a few days ago...the Red Lion pub at the end of the high street is now an Italian restaurant as well as still remaining a pub...it's really nice now..and great food too..
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We didn't have a car when we lived there so took the train everywhere. Hub gave it to stepdaughter to use in Scotland to get to university. I haven't been to SA since I came up here in 2001. We visit Enfield sometimes to see people at hub's old school.

My stepdaughter lived for a few years in Hitchin and in Welwyn Garden City.

You know how huge Dunoon is, right?! We have a Morrisons. And a Co-op. That's it. But fortunately Morrisons expanded a few years ago and is 100% better with a lot more options.
 
Morrisons much make things a whole lot easier for you...I hate the co-op...

Hitchin I know very well..I was over there a at letchworth and hitchin a couple of weeks ago..
Enfield is a dump...one of the most deprived suburbs of London among many others ..and very crime ridden. I wouldn't live there if I was homeless...but thank goodness for decent school teachers/Head masters like your o/h who at least tried to give them a decent education .
 
hollydolly said:
Morrisons much make things a whole lot easier for you...I hate the co-op...

Hitchin I know very well..I was over there a at letchworth and hitchin a couple of weeks ago..
Enfield is a dump...one of the most deprived suburbs of London among many others ..and very crime ridden. I wouldn't live there if I was homeless...but thank goodness for decent school teachers/Head masters like your o/h who at least tried to give them a decent education .
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I haven't seen it but apparently one area of Enfield is rich. My hub was headteacher at an EBD school. So it was challenging. Classes had 8 students each. Very high staff to student ratio. He loved the job and did not want to retire early.
 

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