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Barn Story
Uploaded for the Vintage Photos Theme Park theme of: BARNS, BARNYARDS, AND BARNYARD ANIMALS
This is our house in Bristol.We bought it in 1990 - there was no barn there then. This is a photo given to me many years later by the grandson of the family who lived in it in the 1920s.
When we moved here the people across the street told us that there used to be a barn on the property but it burned down. We were unable to see any trace of one. (Later we realized that perhaps they were talking about the small attached shed.)
Fast forward to the late 1990s. My friends and I were trying to find a new home for the school we had founded some years before. We put an ad in the local paper and a family from a nearby town contacted us and said they would be open to renting their house. The three of us drove out to view it. It was a late 1960s, very funky with winding stairs and rather dark - not workable for the school. We thanked the owner and as he walked us to the car I admired his barn. He asked if we would like to see inside as it was all beautifully hand-pegged and worth checking out. After we had oohed and ahhed - I asked if it had been on the land when they bought their house - as it was clearly older. He said, "No as a matter of fact it came from Bristol".
We said, "Oh, really? That's where we're from. Do you remember whereabouts it was?"
He said, "Sure do - it was quite a job getting it out. It was on Basin Street."
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It was "our" barn - sold and (I assume) dismantled in the 1970s!
We live on a VERY steep hill, so even dismantled it must have been a really difficult move.
Life is so weird sometimes.
Several years later I received this photo and several others from the grandson, as I said, and there was the barn - painted but otherwise the same.
This is our house in Bristol.We bought it in 1990 - there was no barn there then. This is a photo given to me many years later by the grandson of the family who lived in it in the 1920s.
When we moved here the people across the street told us that there used to be a barn on the property but it burned down. We were unable to see any trace of one. (Later we realized that perhaps they were talking about the small attached shed.)
Fast forward to the late 1990s. My friends and I were trying to find a new home for the school we had founded some years before. We put an ad in the local paper and a family from a nearby town contacted us and said they would be open to renting their house. The three of us drove out to view it. It was a late 1960s, very funky with winding stairs and rather dark - not workable for the school. We thanked the owner and as he walked us to the car I admired his barn. He asked if we would like to see inside as it was all beautifully hand-pegged and worth checking out. After we had oohed and ahhed - I asked if it had been on the land when they bought their house - as it was clearly older. He said, "No as a matter of fact it came from Bristol".
We said, "Oh, really? That's where we're from. Do you remember whereabouts it was?"
He said, "Sure do - it was quite a job getting it out. It was on Basin Street."
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It was "our" barn - sold and (I assume) dismantled in the 1970s!
We live on a VERY steep hill, so even dismantled it must have been a really difficult move.
Life is so weird sometimes.
Several years later I received this photo and several others from the grandson, as I said, and there was the barn - painted but otherwise the same.
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