The House in Little Chelsea

House in Little Chelsea | Clare Hastings

I read 11 books this month. It‘s a little less than usual—our vacation as well as two chunksters (I‘m 2/3 thru The Grapes of Wrath right now) helped bring down my total.

I read 8 physical books
2 audiobooks
1 ebook

Gissy Wow! Congratulations!👏👏👏👏 6y

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The House in Little Chelsea | Clare Hastings

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This is a beautiful book that I came across in London. The author lives in a home in Chelsea and tracks down the census records for most of the home‘s history. She then created a narrative for some of the families with the house as the focal point. The stories were fun to read and I loved watching the house evolve.

The endpapers are the actual census records.

Debdeb I love the idea of how this was written!! How utterly creative! Will add that to my tbr list 😊 6y

Reviewsbylola I thought so too! It made me curious about my own house, which is only about 70 years old. @Debdeb 6y

Debdeb Aw the census won‘t be out for your house yet then, you‘ll have to write a reminder for yourself in about 30 years time to check it out @Reviewsbylola 😀 6y

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Reviewsbylola I meant the auditor records/historical parcel sheets. 🤗 It‘s pretty cool, I was able to find the owners back until the 1920s, even though my house wasn‘t built until 1940 (a little bit earlier than I originally thought!). @debdeb 6y

LeahBergen This looks so good. 👍🏻 I owned a house built in 1912 and a very old man showed up one day, looking for the woman who lived there in the 1930s. 😭😭 My current house was built in 1928 and I met a man who grew up in it in the 1950s (he told me where he and his brother played and where their Christmas tree was and so on ❤️❤️). 6y

Debdeb @Reviewsbylola ah yes! I forgot about those! It‘ll be interesting to know if the land was part of a bigger estate earlier on. 6y

emilyhaldi Omg @LeahBergen that‘s so sweet now I‘m crying 😭 6y

Reviewsbylola Wow, that‘s so cool! @LeahBergen 6y

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