Buying a Chorlton house in 1968 …… never throw away the estate agent’s letters

I say letters but I really mean those property sheets which are still the go to when wanting to buy a house.

Of course, today those details are more likely to be found on the internet and the savvy house hunter will first have gone on those sites specializing in house prices on a specific road, judging the popularity of the location and comparing prices with elsewhere.

But back in the day it was a matter of collecting the property sheets and sifting through them

And if you saved the  details of the ones you bought you have in time a history book, offering up the cost of a house, its size, and number of bedrooms, long with things like central heating, the provision of a garage and how big the garden was.

I last bought a house in the 1980s, but of the three, only one already had central heating and all of them were woefully supplied with power points when I moved in, although they did have a telephone connection.

But the mere fact that central heating and a telephone line were issues only 40 or so years ago shows the expectations we now demand of a house.

All of which is an introduction to these property details which my friends Ann and Howard sent over to me.

Their first house in Chorlton was in 1968 on Devonshire Road, and then a littler on St Webrughs’s.

And the rest I leave you to pour over and make of what you will.

Location; Chorlton

Pictures; property details of Devonshire Road, 1968 and St Werburghs’s Road, 1970s, from the collection of Ann and Howard Love