Now, this is a tough read... A 50-year-old note found by a couple in the fireplace of their home revealed the property was 100 times cheaper 50 years ago 🏠 😭
The note, dated November 1971, said the mortgage payments on the house were £5.50 a week
Signed by a previous owner, it said the five-bedroom home in Devizes, Wiltshire, had been bought in 1971 for just £3,000 – with mortgage payments of £5.50 a week. ‘My wage at present is 65p per hour and I go to a Sunday market to make a few bob extra, aged 37 years.’He signs it off: ‘Hope you find this interesting. E.C. Pearce’
She said: ‘Amongst all the rubble though there was a weird bit of paper that had been folded up many, many times into basically a small cube.
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