Page 11 - IT'S A RUM LIFE BOOK FOUR Volume 1 "Northcote 1984 to 1998"

All that remained for me was to find the money to pay for it!

Our beautiful house in New Bolingbroke had been sold to Alan Rundle and his wife Ruth.
Alan was the youngest of the three brothers left running the Rundle family engineering
business, and had always said to us that he would dearly like to buy the house if we ever
moved!
After the ECYB bank (Midland) had been paid from the sale of Ivy House, we had about
£10,000 left, certainly better than I had hoped.

The price of Northcote was £40,000, I had to obtain a mortgage.

The building society that we had been using for Ivy House would not take on an
agricultural property so I had to find another building society.
I chose the Leeds, and duly applied for my mortgage.

Here I found that I was truly forced into a corner as I had to supply details of my job,
employer, income and prospects.

All my business mail was still being redirected to a delightful little old lady who ran the sub
post office close to my old ECYB address.
Hurdle one, my “employer” had an address.

Hurdle two was, “my employer” did have a business established and business stationery.
There was somewhere the building society could write to and obtain details of my
employment.
I did not truly set out to deceive, it was just all there and I really needed that mortgage.
Without it I was sunk without trace. My family would not have a home and my life would be
unbelievably difficult.
I went ahead and applied for my mortgage. The building society letter arrived in my
business post and I replied giving all the details they required about myself.

I was making best use of what was at hand!

After all, I felt that our family had gone through hell in the last few months. I was still going
through huge difficulties that Ruth did not know about. The demonic farmer who had
begun civil proceedings against me for personal spite, was still pressing.

We needed some luck!
The mortgage went through and we made plans to move.

But how to move the result of 14 years living in one place was the next problem?

THE MOVE
I still had access to some of the old ECYB assets that my former “driver adversaries”
thought useless and of no value.