A lovely domestic tale! It reminds me of the wonderful old 1920s cottage I lived in as a child. I used to climb up into the built-in bedroom closets with a torch (flashlight) and read the old newspaper articles and adverts from the pages that had been used to line the inside walls. We now live in a house built in the early 1960s. When we moved in we did find a borded up fireplace in a wall when renovating, and inside it there was letter written by the children who used to live there.
A lovely domestic tale! It reminds me of the wonderful old 1920s cottage I lived in as a child. I used to climb up into the built-in bedroom closets with a torch (flashlight) and read the old newspaper articles and adverts from the pages that had been used to line the inside walls. We now live in a house built in the early 1960s. When we moved in we did find a borded up fireplace in a wall when renovating, and inside it there was letter written by the children who used to live there.
Oh love this, as I too love old houses and chimney sweeps. I'm just glad he didn't have a nimble 5 year old boy to clamber up those 9 metres.