[leoedin]

In my loft someone has written their name in mortar on the chimney, along with the year - 1949.

It's amazing to think that person, probably relatively young when they built this house just after the war, is now either dead or pushing 90. A whole life lived with their name in the loft.

[wiz21c]

Some parts of my house are 200 years old (according to architect). That's truly mind blowing to see that it's still up !

Fun fact : when your house is so old, you have to take care of it the old way too... It's more expensive and nobody wants to do the job 'cos it's always trickier than new houses :-)

[jacquesm]

This is from the 12th century:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e0/Overzich...

[Karto]

Come to Europe, masons' ghosts are all over... I used to live cheaply in a simple downtown appartment in a mediterranean city. Year carved in stone : 1724.

[leoedin]

I live in Europe! My house is not old for the area, and there's millenia of documented history for this spot. It used to be an observatory!

But it's still interesting - on a personal level - to think about the lives of the people who built it.