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The First Steps From Then to Now.

I haven’t simply forgotten about the story of Our House. That’s impossible as we are all living the story as it unfolds.  But things are changing a little deep down here – a small ray of light has started to reach us. The past 19 months, since the Old House finally shook itself and got ready for a new lease of life, have been so eventfull, so compelling, and so full of drama that half the house is now on anti-depressants. But out of all that, maybe something good is happening right now.  I think we might just have taken a small step for humanity. We’ve become an Association… And so – to go back to the beginning… This completely gutted and re-vamped Victorian villa, which comprises 16 households, is the product of a scheme undertaken by Seaside Homes in conjunction with Council, to assimilate People Like Us into the community: rather than confining us to the ghettos that ring that community. So the building and surrounds had to meld into the  middle-cl...