The Grip

My mum lived here with her parents and grandparents. She was born in 1946. I don't know how long they had lived there but all my mums uncles and aunts and dad grew up there too. My grandad was born in 1920 and was no4 of 5 children so it gives u an idea. Anyway there was a small annex and that's where my mum and her parents lived (next door to the grandparents) until she was 5yrs when they moved to Rivey way to the new council houses. When they moved out of the annex my grandads youngest brother and his wife moved in. My mum had a little bed at the side of her parents bed and swears when she woke one night she saw a ghost at the end of her parents bed.

Hello Alison, That's really interesting! I don't think it was your grandfather that sold the house to my parents, as it was an elderly man and your grandfather was born in the same year as my dad. It's so weird about the ghost sighting as the one I saw was at the end of my parents bed too!!!

Hi
I was born in 1970, and from this year I lived at 28 The Grip, Linton. My Dad was keen to do some research on the families that lived here and the oldest he went back was to the Thorpes family hence the address is now;
Thorpes, 28 The Grip, Linton.
I was fascinated to learn that in 1953 that there was no bathroom in the house, did your family put one in. I think I may have emailed you before and you said that the toilet was on the top garden. We now have a bathroom in the room nearest the gate and also we have fitted another room above this room as bedroom, the loft, which overlooks the gate in the driveway.
Where was the outside pump and was there any trace of the buildings outside on the back garden?
I think the annex you mentioned is actually separated from our house and is called 28a.
I have been living in Australia for the last 25 years and I am now back. I am now 54 years old and very interested in the history of the house.
Kind regard
Leigh
Leigh Walters!