General   (General discussion, talk about anything.)

Yeah I've noticed Ashton seems to be getting expensive to live. I lived in Wigan road as a kid in a terraced house, my mum and dad I think paid about 10k in 1983 for it, now that house is probably valued at about £180,000. Moved to near Lowbank Road in the early 90s to a semi and the houses in that row are worth next to nothing. I remember someone next door but one selling his house about 10 years ago and it was on the market for only £110,000. When my grandma died about 6 years ago her lovely red brick house in Wolmer St was sold for only £115,000, yet a few months later a house at the bottom of the street was on the market for £170,000. The bloke who bought the house has completely destoyed the period look of it by modernising it with new bricks and putting those ugly grey windows and door on that seem to be fasionable now.

Behind me is the posh estate leading to Skitters where eveyone seems to have money burning a hole in their pockets with a new extension and drive way built. Then there's Liverpool Road where they must all be millionaires. Clive Unsworth's old bungalow on Liverpool Road has been rebuilt. That house must be worth in excess of a million now with the amount of work done to it.