A post about how the namesake of this blog is prospering under new management.
Photo credit to Ajnabeee. More photos tagged with ‘Wellbank’. fyi a place in Scotland called Wellbank.
I was at the Codeworks Connect Christmas party 10 days ago. There I bumped into Andrew Robson, its outgoing Chairman. Andrew is the boss of Perfect Image, an IT systems integrator in the North East of England.
The ever-genial Andrew ventured that he knew something about me that I probably wasn’t aware of. I immediately thought “Oh no, what have I done *this* time?”.
It was therefore with a mixture of fond memories and slight wonderment that Andrew announced that he and his family now live in my Granny’s old house – blog post passim.
So, we proceeded to have a long chat about the history of the house, and what the Robsons have done to refurbish the house. We talked about:
- My Uncle floating this slippers in the bath, and jumping down the stairs
- The marvellous outside loo
- How they had found some fascinating stuff, e.g. university newspapers and some books[?] from the late 19th century.
- uni newspapers
- 1880s records
- What needed to be done about refurbishing the house
Apparently (and thankfully) they have left the garden pretty much the same. And Don the Gardener still comes to look after the garden when he can. :-)
So, a happy story and good to think that my roots are in good hands.
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