Finding house history

[miniwill58]

Hello

We’ve just moved house to a small village to be closer to family. It’s an older house compared to what we’ve come from, this one was built in 1917.

The house maintains quite a lot of what we believe to be original features and were fascinated by the history of it and really want to find out more.

Does anyone know how we can find out more information about the house and who lived here in the past? Has anyone got experience of doing something similar?

Thanks

[miniwill58]

Thanks for your responses.

1939 register proved useful as a start, we found two elderly, widowed women were living in the house in 1939 and this has piqued our interest so we'll be trying the local library and going from there.

We also emailed our local council and they responded to say that they offer a service to find this information, at £30 per hour...

Edited by miniwill58 on Friday 16th November 13:12

[miniwill58]

Roman Rhodes said:

So your interest is all downhill now? Sorry!

On a related point I've often wondered what our surroundings looked like in the past and thought it would be great if there was a way of overlaying old maps on the present satellite images (I see old maps is mentioned above and I've looked at that in the past). Last year I stumbled across

https://maps.nls.uk/os/6inch-england-and-wales/

If you click on the "seamless zoomable overlayer" you can overlay old maps with current Google, Bing etc images and see what was there before your house was built, or what was around it etc, Quite fascinating.

Ah... thanks for picking that up, I've corrected it

Very interesting link, thanks!