It all started with a Type 27
During the summer of 1973 my parents fell in love with the idea of buying a newly built house. That house had to be a Leech built Type 27 - semi-detached villa (other builders were available, but their offerings were summarily rejected). Location was less certain and we spent that summer picking out the prime plot on several different new developments. Preference went to those houses which would have an open aspect at the front and much time was spent in working out which way the sun would affect the garden. A definite choice was made more than once, one evening that summer I remember being encouraged to place a penny in a gap in the mortar of the foundation course of bricks of one such prospective purchase. As happened more than once that house was rejected a few days later and a purchase was made on another estate a few miles north. I think construction was too far advanced on that one to put a penny in the foundations! 10 Beech Drive, Ellington, Northumberland Home November 1973