Green Street Cottage, Cam Green, Dursley, Gloucestershire

That’s the address of the house where I grew up.  In fact I was born there, at home in 1963 and lived in that house until I left home to go to university.  After I graduated I got a job elsewhere in the country and never went back.

My parents bought the house the year I was born and sold it in 1988 (at a 15,000% profit, but let’s not dwell on that!).  This year, almost 30 years after I last lived there, I was in the area and went to see if the house is still there.  It is, and the family who own it now were kind enough to invite me in and show me round.  A lot has changed from how I remember it and they asked if I had any photos of how it used to be.  I didn't think that I had, but when I sifted through my teenage photography projects I found two interesting albums.  One is from February 1982, when there was heavy snow in Gloucestershire, and the road was completely blocked.  The pictures are not that good as they were black and white developed by me and a couple of mates who didn’t have a lot of experience.  I’ve only got the negatives so I got a negative scanner and copied them.  The other is, I think, summer of 1983 when I was home for my first long university holidays.  These were mostly shot on colour slides and scanned with the same scanner.  I've also included some older b/w pictures in that album which may date back to 1981.  Follow these links to my albums:

Summer 1983 (and others)

February Snow 1982