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WHERE MY WIFE WAS BORN


WHERE MY WIFE WAS BORN
My wife was born in Ohrfeld, northern Germany in the cottage shown below. Sadly, when visiting Germany, about 10+ years ago, we discovered that the building had been knocked down. We salvaged three bricks (two reddish and one yellowish) from the debris to bring back to England. They are now part of a raised flower bed in our garden.
The cottage had to make way for a new main road and other housing. 
#cottage   #germany
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  1. Ann KennedyFebruary 20, 2015 at 5:14 AM

    It's nice that you have the picture, and of course the bricks are a special reminder I'm sure.  My childhood home was taken down only a few days before I had written a friend to ask if she could take a picture of it. I found it alarming even though I knew it was inevitable.

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  2. Mike PerryFebruary 20, 2015 at 6:29 AM

    Ann Kennedy I suppose we don't like to lose our roots. A couple of years ago I went back to where I lived as a child in west London to take photos. It's akin to losing a part of yourself when your past dissolves.

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  3. Ann KennedyFebruary 20, 2015 at 6:36 AM

    Mike Perry Very well stated.

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  4. Laurent TruilletFebruary 20, 2015 at 7:39 AM

    Ann Kennedy So your case is even worse than Mike's and mine because you have no photograph at all !
    I have an idea about vintage aerial photos (before the satellites). I'll soon do a future post on this subject.
    LT

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  5. Ann KennedyFebruary 20, 2015 at 7:42 AM

    Laurent TRUILLET Not of the home when I was an infant, but only of a later one. I have posted previously here the photo of where my mother was born; a simple farm home of 1920.

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  6. Mike PerryFebruary 20, 2015 at 7:43 AM

    Laurent TRUILLET Look forward to that aerial post.

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  7. italo tagliabueFebruary 20, 2015 at 8:50 AM

    A pity that bad end to a very nice building

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  8. Mike PerryFebruary 20, 2015 at 9:10 AM

    italo tagliabue It is a pity. Luckily in the UK many old properties have preservation orders on them to protect their future.

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  9. Margaret Siemers (Siemers Rafter Room)February 20, 2015 at 9:21 AM

    Sounds like I got very lucky, The Field Stone Farmhouse I was born and raised in, built in 1711 still stands and still has people living in it.

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  10. Mike PerryFebruary 20, 2015 at 9:27 AM

    Margaret Siemers How wonderful, may it stand for many more hundreds of years,

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  11. Ann KennedyFebruary 20, 2015 at 9:35 AM

    Margaret Siemers Lots of good stories in those old rafters! When we lived in West Chester we used to drive for hours just enjoying the fieldstone walls, barns and homes.

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