Glory Hole

Today

One of the reasons we bought Spencer House is to be able to bring the Bentley in out of the rain. We can also put the E-Class away.

So we are working very hard, shifting the boxes out of the garage into their right places. When you talk to people or look around you realise that very few folk actually put their cars into their garages; preferring to use them as dumping grounds for everything they haven't the room for indoors or in lieu of a shed.

In My Day

There were, if I remember correctly, two garages at 4BH. they were wooden structures with pitched roofs and double doors. there was one either side of the house, set back well from the road. As we generally didn't have a car (except for our brief fling with Douglas the Daimler), they clearly didn't house motor vehicles. In fact, I can't remember what was in them. Not garden equipment as that was either in the basement "garden room" or the shed.

The shed was also a pitched roof structure, built laterally against the rear of the garage at the top of the slope. This meant that the slope of the roof ended on one side against the wall of the garage.

At some point in our lives we thought that it would be a good idea to play on this roof. You scrambled up onto the shed roof and once up there you could slide down the slope, clamber over the garage, take up a picnic - anything. Mamma and Daddy didn't seem at all worried for our safety and I actually don't think there were any accidents.

Looking st these pictures reminds me how we girls wore dresses to play in and the boys shirt, ties and jackets. the picture was clearly posed as we all seem uncertain as to what act to put on the for the camera. But we did play on the garage and shed roofs pretty often, although I was, as usual, slightly at variance with the prevailing mood, being afraid
 a) of the dangers b) of getting my dress dirty.

Anyway, I am looking forward to being the proud owner of a garage that actually houses cars.