In today’s time, everyone wants the newest technology and the newest homes. But a 104-year-old woman didn’t get lured into anything ew and made sure that her loyalty remained with her childhood home.
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Living in the same house for 104 years
A great-grandmother today,
Elsie Allcock was born in 1918
and hails from the United Kingdom. She has lived in the same house for 104 years. She has also lived through the two world wars, four kings and queens and 25 prime ministers.
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The woman has been living in a terraced house on Barker Street in Huthwaite. Her father had rented the house in 1902 for seven shillings and sixpence, about £30 (Rs 2,800) in today’s money.
Elsie was the youngest of five children and went on to live there with her husband Bill, who she married in 1941 during the Second World War.
She had been living in the house with her dad, staying there to look after him after her mum died of pneumonia when she was 14.
“My mum, Eliza, died so I stayed to look after my dad. When me and Bill married, we just stopped here and never left. My dad died in 1949 and we finally bought the house in the 1960s,” she told The Sun.
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Elsie bought the house
Elsie bought the house for £250 after taking a loan. The property is now worth £75,000.
“I’ve never wanted to live anywhere else — this is my home and it means everything to me,” Elsie said.
She added, “We kept the outside loo – it still works. Very little has changed. I wouldn’t have been happy anywhere else.”
She also added that the first thing the new homeowners did after buying the house was replaced their tin bath with a proper bathroom.
Her family are sure that the 104-year-old will never leave the house, with 75-year-old son Ray saying his mother ‘loves’ the place as it’s ‘full of memories’.
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She even says that she is so familiar with the house that she can find her way in the dark. She has wanted to live no place else and the house means everything to her.
Wow, this house may have so many stories.
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