Ever thought about all the people who lived in your house before
you? Julie Myerson did, and set out to learn as much as she could
about their fascinating lives. This is the biography of a house,
the history of a home. It's an ordinary house, an ordinary home,
and ordinary people have lived there for over a century. But start
to explore who they were, what they believed in, what they desired
and they soon become as remarkable, as complicated and as
fascinating as anyone. That is exactly what Julie Myerson set out
to do. She lives in a typical Victorian terraced family house, of
average size, in a typical Victorian suburb (Clapham) and she loves
it. She wanted to find out how much those who preceded her loved
living there, so she spent hours and hours in the archives at the
Family Record Office, the Public Record Office at Kew, local
council archives and libraries across the country. Like an
archaeologist, she found herself blowing the dust off files that
no-one had touched since the last sheet of paper in them was typed.
As she scraped the years away, underneath she found herself
embroiled in a detective hunt as, bit by bit, she started to piece
together the story of her house, built in 1877, as told by its
former occupants in their own words and deeds. And so she met the
bigamist, the Tottenham Hotspur fanatic, the Royal servant, the
Jamaican family and all the rest of the eccentric and entertaining
former occupants of 34 Lillieshall Road. The book uncovers a lost
130-year history of happiness and grief, change and prudence,
poverty and affluence, social upheaval and technological advance.
Most of us are dimly aware that we are not the first person to turn
a key in our front door lock, yet we rarely confront the shadows
that inhabit our homes. But once you do - and Julie Myerson shows
you how - you will never bear to part from their company again.
This is your home's story too.
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