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[Med Pie]

Really? I seem to remember quite a few working class people aspiring to their own property from after the post-war years. Every other house in our 1950s council estate was privately owned by the time I left there in the mid-60s. It was easy to tell in those days because all of the council houses had the same colour scheme (green IIRC), and of course every privately owned house was painted any colour other than green. I did the newspaper rounds so I became reasonably familiar with the housing.

You clearly lived in a more affluent place than me, in the early 60's, I'd struggle to know anybody who owned their own house and growing up in Aspley, that percentage would be less that 1%. I'm wracking my brain now and genuinely, cannot recall a single house in my area, which I could identify as privately owned.

There were obviously the privately built homes such as those on e.g Bagnall Lane or Robinswood Drive but cross Aspley Lane and they were all, council houses and it was a very large area, over to Strelley, Broxtowe Lane and Bells Lane, all the way down to Nuthall Rd. This is without mentioning Basford, Balloon Woods or Blenheim flats, all gone now of course. We moved in to a brand new, council house as late as 1974 in Bulwell, my parents bought their first house in 1978.

[Old_pie]

You clearly lived in a more affluent place than me, in the early 60's, I'd struggle to know anybody who owned their own house and growing up in Aspley, that percentage would be less that 1%. I'm wracking my brain now and genuinely, cannot recall a single house in my area, which I could identify as privately owned.

You may be right - one of the large Hucknall estates compared to Aspley! Maybe it was the decade difference.

[Lullapie]

You may be right - one of the large Hucknall estates compared to Aspley! Maybe it was the decade difference.

My family bought a council house on Bestwood Estate in 1977. I believe that Bestwood was one of the estates targeted by the Tory government with regards to the 'Right to Buy' policy.

I can remember my mum having a list of 'available' properties, printed out on four sheets of paper and we travelled around looking at them. You don't notice a lot when you're young, but I remember thinking how bad some of the houses were on the list and considering Bestwood Estate was one of the better areas on there, says it all really.

However, it was a foot on the ladder and there were quite a few people living near us, who had also bought their council house. The difference was that they had been living in their house for many years. Ours hadn't been touched since it was built.

I always used to love Bulwell as it always seemed 'high-end'. Years later I moved to Hucknall and that's where I settled and played my football.

I came across a photo from my bedroom window taken just after we'd moved in. Bloody hell, it looked like a war zone.