What can you remember about your Grandparent's house?



The heady smell of TCP mixed with a hint of piss and tobacco as you went through the door.
The side wall freestanding Formica pantry unit with the slidey doored top, pull down middle bit (where nanna kept her waxy wrapped loaves of bread).
The outdoor above ground air raid shelter and decent sized back garden.
The plastic photo cube on the sideboard that would rotate after you wound it up and it would play a plinky plonky song reminiscent of tales from the unexpected but it wasn't that.
The plastic bero men in the sideboard along with some China that was "just for show".
Grandad puffing on his wooodbines and being practically addicted to horseracing.
My nanna being a very thin waif of a woman that I can't remember ever seeing eat anything.
 
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My 82 year old aunty still lives there. It’s exactly the same as it always was. They are the only family to have lived in that house and I really hope we keep it in the family when her time is up.

My grandad had a metal cigarette box that he kept the dominos in. He had a green baize card table with folding legs that he would set up for us to play on.

The bathroom always smelled of old fashioned bath salts. My Nana had a big jar of it on the windowsill.

I used to go every Wednesday after school and she would make my tea -beans on toast or something similar - before I went to the cubs. Used to watch Yogi and friends or Rentaghost beforehand.
 
My Grandma had a hostess trolley and liked to proudly wheel it in full of sarnies and cakes, even if you'd just popped in for a quick visit. She was obsessed with feeding people. She always had a bowl of dried marrowfat peas soaking in the kitchen but every time we had peas, they were always rock hard.

Staying over at my grandparents house and getting up early to help my Grandad light the fire, then making doorstep slices of toast on it for breakfast.
 
Latka Gravas said:
A sideboard that was also a radio and record player.
Ginger wine.
My grandad shaving every day.
Home made pies/pastries.
Playing cards for coppers.
My grandparents were the greatest people ever and I still miss them to this day. @rocky
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The fire
The old football annual encyclopedia type books
Sandwiches of any, and I mean, variety

We were truly blessed to have such great grandparents
 
Open fireM

Mince plate pies

Me nanna used to keep the Sunderland echos under the settee for when I visited to read the football

Always knitting needles and a half made baby cardigan in the go for someone she knew

Brass ornaments

Them knitted dolls dress toilet roll cover things you don't see anymore
 
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nandos sonic sauce said:
Open fireM

Mince plate pies

Me nanna used to keep the Sunderland echos under the settee for when I visited to read the football

Always knitting needles and a half made baby cardigan in the go for someone she knew
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My gran keeps the sports page of a paper nearest to our birth for when Sunderland played. Think mine is phillips after he scored a brace away at QPR iirc.
 
coal fire with a small barrel on the hearth filled with coloured spills which me granda would put in the fire to light his pipe and their Bush radiogram with a 78 speed setting for their old records
 
We used to watch, over and over again, on their VCR:

Zulu
Laurel and Hardy
The Two Ronnies by the Sea
It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World

Everything had to stop whenever "Marvellous" Marvin Hagler was on the TV. My grandpa absolutely adored him.
 

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