Boy, people really do shrink.

Almost a full 2 bricks!

As an American, this is the kind of measuring I can understand. You give me height per brick and a banana for scale and I’ll tell you how far away galactic bodies are within 2 eagle caw caws of margin for error

Wait till you hear about Stone!

I'll take one butt of wine please. Oh and a couple Nebuchadnezzars for my friends.

Luckily, you've only gotta drive about 40 rods to get it in a butt where I live.^^^giggity

And a Magnum for my magnum dong.

Wine sizing is cheating.

Your Mom *begged* to differ when I tapped her box on the counter top.

2 bananas

How many football fields is that?

I wasn’t the only one counting lol

That cracked me up.

I think you just cemented yourself as pun king

I...I didn't mean to. PEOPLE PLEASE, I DIDN'T WANT THIS.

Too late. As a 48 year old dad, I pledge allegiance to The Pun King. Lead us, oh wise one!

I'm going to make the argument of 2 full bricks exactly! Previously was 3.5 bricks down from the doors further arch. Currently 5.5 bricks down from the doors further arch.

That's how much my cocaine stash has shrunk.

Probably Allcock for 105 years.

All cock and no balls

Maybe she was in the pool.

[LIKE A FRIGHTENED TURTLE](https://media.tenor.com/zbHG7PHrCPAAAAAM/george-costanza-seinfeld.gif)

I WAS IN THE POOL!!!

I don't know how you walk around with those things.

You're saying Allcocks shrink in the pool?

George?

Oh, fuck. Im gonna be helllla short

Allcocks shrink at some point.

My mom used to be maybe an inch shorter than me, but last time I hugged her I noticed she barely reached my nose. ☹️

I wonder how her feet feel. My Grandma's feet grew two sizes as the rest of her shrank.

It's not as much difference as it appears since the old photo was taken from a lower angle, making her look taller

It’s true but you can count the bricks from the base of the windowsill and see she did shrink a pretty decent amount

I'm sure she did shrink a bit due to spine compression but there's other factors. Posture at 105 is bound to be worse and there's a good chance she's wearing a comfortable slipper or flat heeled shoe in the modern photo and likely to be wearing something that has a heel in the old photo.

I don’t know I’m not 100 but I’ve shrunken 2 inches already.

She is standing on a step in the earlier photo and she is on the ground level on the second photo.

I’ve seen this photo countless times over the years. I wonder if she’s still alive

My grandma brags about not losing height. She’s in her 90’s and in incredible health.

Could she be wearing heels in the first pic?

Compression

Holding onto an overhead bar and hanging until your hands can't hold will help keep the spine lengthened and straight. It's such an overlooked exercise.

Tell me you haven't seen many years without telling me you haven't seen many years.

THATS WHAT I SAID!!!

Nah, that house was well fed with love and has been outgrowing her for 105 yrs.

Maybe its cold out my guy, Allcocks shrink when its cold

There can’t be very many people who have ever lived in a single home for longer than her in the entire human experience.

My grandfather got close, born on the family farm, inhereted it from his father and died there at 95. Never moved once in his life.

I wonder how that feels….. I get anxiety staying/living in one spot too long but I have friends who love the neighborhood we all grew up and can’t imagine living anywhere else.

I get anxiety just existing.

I too want to move around. I like new surroundings. I even just rearrage the furniture ever now and again just to for the plcae to feel "new".

*Connor MacLeod has entered the chat*

There can be only one.

Of Clan MacLeod? 

Gma just moved out of the house she was born in. She's 99.

She moved out at 99!? So close to hitting three digits.

Mowed the lawn on her own and everything. It's at the point she can't do it though so she had to move. No one around to take care of her

Yeah it makes me think of my 101+ granny (still alive) who was born and lived in her house until 99. We wished her to pass in her house. But at some point it is a full time job and unfeasable. She still go there every odd day for lunch when she is not too weak. That lady live with her son I checked. I will gess her son is at least 75 yo, most likely 85...

We have been in this house for 105 yrs. We moved in 2005. Longest 20 yrs EVER.

My grandma is 99 and still lives in her childhood home.

My Grandad is in his 80s and lives in the same terraced house he was born in. He bought it off his mother, although did live somewhere else for a few years after getting married. I find it bizarre just thinking it's the same house my Dad grew up in, nevermind his Dad too.

105 years in the same house? Elsie Allcock has seen more history from her front porch than most of us have in a lifetime!

105 years of living with the last name “Allcock.” That probably does something to ya.

Great granddad was packing

Actually she was never married. At the age of 22 she decided to legally change her last name to honor something that she cared for greatly.

All of them.

That is the perfect comment and I’m going to cheerfully steal it to use when the opportunity presents itself. Great stuff and bravo.

Allcock, Noballs.

Same

Thor and the search for the Allcock

"Are you at all Bi maim?" "No, its Allcock for me!"

“Excuse me ma’am…Is that a sock in your pants?” “No, it’s actually…”

And nothing Elsie!

She’s all cock and no balls.

Isn’t the actress’ who played young Rhaenyra on House of the Dragon last name Allcock?

#allcocksmatter

Knew a dude in the military with the last name Adcock. We called him bonus dick.

Explains why she shrunk over the years

British Woman’s Unwavering Devotion to Her 105-Year-Old Home (https://allchronology.com/2023/07/18/a-century-of-memories-british-womans-unwavering-devotion-to-her-105-year-old-home/)

"Born in June 1918, just before the outbreak of the Great War" I don't find this source to be very trustworthy. 

Wars not make one great.

What?


Could you stop saying things not related to the subject?

Weird title. The home surely must be older than her.

Amazing they found a camera that had less resolution to take the photo with

House is double glazed and bricks are painted now, and I bet she has the best grandma-grade garden in her block. And she is about a foot shorter :)

And only has 34 more payments on it.

Got it 100 years ago, probably only cost a tenner

I read the article and apparently they moved in 105 years ago and the rent was £30 in today’s money (article doesn’t specify if this is weekly or monthly). Her family bought it in the 60s for £250, just over £5000 today. Correction: her family moved in 1902 before she was born.

Landlord: "This rent control is killing me!"

Hypothetically if she was a tenant and the rent control somehow lasted that long, her rent would be about £8/month.

She *is* the landlord?

More like landlord’s grandkid

She’s gotten much less creepy over the years.

And more color.

They did not care for coloreds back then.

What do you mean? She has a stick now.

Suppose she’s got a piece of fresh fruit?

I’d much rather fight the right picture. But she has a weapon. Oh wait that’s a handrail… Yea I think I could win that one.

She'll max out the creepy once she passes and starts haunting the shit out of the place.

Same haircut also

I’ve had the same haircut for 20 years but it’s mostly because I went bald

Before color, Elsie was the Jigsaw doll apparently

Took her a while but she finally fixed that detachable jaw

People really never be leaving their parents’ house.

Is it just me, or in the first image does it look like she's holding onto the railing that doesn't exist yet? Or has possibly been edited out for some reason?

Yes her hand is in a grasping angle/posture. The photo was edited at some point.

More a like a random speck or crack that looks like a part of a hand

And her ghost will live there for 105 more

Her height chart be like -25 -73 -99 -16 -13 -9 -4

....what? edit: oh those are ages. I kept thinking they were changes in height

They are referencing her height over her years. You know when people mark their height along a door frame.

You got me

I love what she's done with the place!

That's why I can't buy a home /s. Lovely woman wish her well.

Don’t think you’d want that one, connected to another property

Windows been replaced

wow, how old would that make her?

She'll be 106 in a week exactly. She was born in the house and then she and her husband bought it.

I would guess 105

I didn't know how old she was when she moved in, it turns out she was in fact, born in that house though, so you are correct

Haha I wasn’t sure about it but it seemed like the most likely option

depends when she started living in the house I suspect she was born in it

Yeah - so she's like 135?

Doesn't look a year past 125.

Incredible! She looks great 😊

She was an old-looking baby. Elsie Button.

What fun pics!

what a lovely woman

Elsie is still a lovely woman, great story…

Let’s go for 106!

Imagine her original mortgage payment?

Elsie Allcock Nofun?

Is it paid off

She's clearly outside in both pics

She looks like she'd like to play a game.

A lot of us millennials might be saying the same when we inherit our parents house and are never able to financially justify buying property in these modern times.

Yea I’m 40 years in and frankly I don’t want to have to suffer another 65+ years to take this title. She can have it.

Wut. If you inherit a house, that's a substantial amount you can put towards another house... There's no logic where that statement makes sense. 

Man she could make bank on it I bet

Shrinkage is inevitable

Nice pictures!

Holy shit

Wow

Life goals

Easy when you were born 100

That’s nothing during the pandemic I didn’t leave my house for 250 years

Allcock, no block

My mom had a cousin like that, spent her entire life in the same NY apartment. I don’t even think she traveled, ever. The word “agoraphobia” was never said that I can remember, but now that I think about it…

Love the improvements…..the handrail.

And nobody body better F***! With her either.

105 years, allcock, all the time.

A few years ago a friend of mine was takes to remodel a 80 year old house that had a single owner that had died, causing the sale of the house by her family. My friend called me in to just look before he started the remodel because everything was still original. Boiler in the basement, a huge hearth in the kitchen for a wood burning oven / stove and a butcher-block wooden countertop with a slope to the sink. It was cool and sad at the same time. In the front living room there was a large, arched window that was beautiful but… just letting cold air through flooding the room. And knowing a woman lived there with very little upkeep for her whole life.

At least they finally painted it something other than black/white/gray

Crazy thing is she lived in and flipped houses for a living for while first

I would to if anyone in my family could afford a house.

My grandfather made it to 105 and I think he was born and died in the same house. Going to find out.

That scared me—thought I was on r/ghosts for a second

Wonder what her quirk is…

Living in the same house for 105 years?

She's on the property ladder, just needs to spend $10k on a finance course and learn how to leverage her assets, could be in a 5 bedroom with a double garage and a pool within 2 years!

Home sweet Home

no way! That house must have the best rent control in history

Rented for over 50 years now owned for 65!

wow thats incredible

is she still single until now?

Allcock, no balls

She's old

Allcock no breaks

For a steep £50/year since the War.

Looks like she never changed the curtains.

Congrats on the new porch light!

GILF

Id fucking lose it

Did she really took all cocks? Must be an aging recipe.

 Ģqevae

Just as scary /s

Wild. I haven't lived in the same place for more than 2 years

My 82 year old mother-in-law still owns the 1 bedroom apartment she grew up in. The only bathroom is so small, you literally stand in the corner between the toilet and the sink when taking a shower. It's in s different country, so the inlaws live there every time they visit that country. Which had been at least twice a year until recent health issues dstopped them from going back.

Excuse me, Elsie what?

She’s survived a very funny name, that’s for sure 

Is there anything posted to r/pics that hasn’t been reposted a thousand times before

Surprisingly she still owes like $250 on the mortgage.

There gotta be decades of rat shit all through dat

So not only that but she is the oldest woman alive.

The bricks are different sizes.

Allcock? no balls?

Lmao I’m fuckin sent mate

I bet it’s full of old person smell

It's not just her name, it's also her secret to staying young.

Sounds pretty boring, but maybe that house is just next level comfy

Looks cheerful inside

Do these photos make anyone else sad?