Elsie Allcock, a British Woman has lived all her entire life in the two-bed property in Huthwaite, Nottinghamshire where she was born 105 years ago.
“I wouldn’t have been happy anywhere else.” “I’ve never left and I won’t. They’ll have to take me from here,” she told The Sun UK
Her dad first rented the house on Barker Street in Huthwaite, Notts, for seven shillings and sixpence in 1902.
Elsie the youngest of five children — was born on June 28, 1918, during World war One
She was 14 when her mum died from pneumonia and stayed to look after my dad
She marry her husband Bill in 1941 and they stayed back in the house, her died in 1949 and they finally bought the house in the 1960s.”
The landlord offered the home now worth £75,000 for £250 “We didn’t have £250, so I went to the council and asked for a loan. They agreed and the house was ours.”
Elsie, who recently turned 105, is still active around the house and enjoys gardening, doing jigsaws and word searches.
Elsien who now lives there with her 76-year-old son, Raymond has seen the end of World War One, World War Two, five heads of state and 22 British prime ministers.
Credit.The sun uk, BBC UK
