9 Brook Avenue, Edgware, Middlesex, photo taken in
the late 1940s.
My father paid £835 for
9 Brook Avenue, Edgware,
Middlesex in April 1938. This was a year before the impact of
World War Two hit house prices when I
understand that there were For Sale notices all along the road.
The house was on the
northern edge of London's suburbia.
According to old documents which have remarkably survived, he put down £200 cash and used a mortgage with what
was then Abbey Road Building Society.
The monthly mortgage
repayments were £4, as shown by my father's
account book and his
monthly
expenditure. This is in the old
£-s-d currency. There are
conversions to today's currency on the internet, but money has devalued so
much that only the pounds are really significant today. The number of shillings
indicate the fraction of a pound, where there were 20 shillings to a pound.
This website Join me in the 1900s is also known as
Join me in the 1900's and is © Pat Cryer.
The 1940s and 1950s are also written as the 1940's and 1950's
