I'm getting plastered tomorrow...

Finally had a new ceiling put in today after storm damage to the roof has meant that it's been raining in my spare room for a while. Part of the reason I love my house despite the fact that it's got so much work to do on it to make it remotely nice; is that it's got history. Not The Earl of Snodwhip and his family kind of history but normal people history.

I promised myself that i'd look into going to Central Library when I had time and start looking at who commissioned my street to but built and when. I know the street was not on the 1881 map of my locality but it is on the 1901 map. I want to know if it was the equivalent of a wimpy house or more specific? Amazingly enough these days you are not required to receive full deeds on a house and my deeds only go back about 20 years of ownership rather than covering the estimate (so far) 100 years it's been here.

Today while the workies were up ripping down my old ceiling they came across the original boards for the loft, wrapped in a newspaper which by a weird stroke of luck had the date 1897 on it.




The sate is at the top left of the image just before the tear and it clearly says March 1897. I noticed the paper has a lot to do with railways which is fitting for the area and also has half of the word "wesleyan" across it on the left hand side which I find interesting as there is an old sandstone Westeyan chapel building 2 streets away. Was my house built for rail workers or rail management? Was it something to do with both the railway and the Wesleyan chapel? Was this someone's 1897 recycling borrowed as a crude form of insulation. I don't know but I'm going to find out!